Category: Dostoevsky

Sen. David Richards: The Aggrieved

Commentary Money which my wife and I now have but never had for years seems to provoke the belief in others that we should have a kind of commitment toward open-mindedness, a feeling that we must pay obligatory lip service to the “liberal” issues that have forced their way into the court of today’s public…


University Walks Back Decision to Postpone Teaching Dostoevsky Over Russian Invasion

An Italian university reversed course on a decision to postpone a course on 19-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last week. Paoli Nori, a writer who had been asked by the University of Milano-Bicocca to voluntarily teach a four-session course on the author, took to Instagram in an emotional video after…


Undermining the Foundations: Lessons From Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ‘Devils’

Early in March, I was sucker punched by a Russian. A dead Russian, as a matter of fact. Let me explain. Late in December, I made a New Year’s resolution to read at least six classics that were new to me in the coming year. Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe” was my first choice, and I…