Wednesday 12 August 2015

Reading Tony Judt in Wartime Ukraine

The Maidan was the return of metaphysics. It was a precarious moment of moral clarity, an impassioned protest against rule by gangsters, against what in Russian is called proizvol: arbitrariness and tyranny.

Very interesting essay:

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/reading-tony-judt-in-wartime-ukraine?intcid=mod-latest

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