On Putin and Russia
And a good-bye to a lovely voice, with brief appearances of the moon, hope, Pascal, and Lynyrd Skynyrd
[Still from Jacques Tati’s Playtime]
This just went up at Public Discourse yesterday.
Stéphane Courtois is a formidable historian with acute insights into the nature of totalitarianism. A friend noted after reading this review that Courtois seems caught between ideologues: the right-wing partisans of Putin and Russia as the savior of the Christian West w…