Czeslaw Milosz
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What We’ve Been Reading November 05, 2021
The poet Czesław Miłosz defected from Soviet-dominated Poland in 1951. Two years later he published The Captive Mind. He had been a “man of the left,” and accommodated himself to the communist regime in Poland that was imposed by Russian tanks. But o...
A Quiet Totalitarian Revolution November 16, 2020
A curious thing is happening in the immediate aftermath of the US presidential election: Facebook, Eventbrite, and other gatekeepers of the electronic public square are refusing to let Trump supporters organize protests through their platforms. No on...
Milosz's Letter to Burham February 23, 2020
In a life that stretched from 1911 to 2004, the great Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz experienced the twin traumas of Poland’s 20th century: first Nazi occupation, then communist dictatorship. A man of the democratic left, he was never enamored with Stali...
