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An interview occasioned by The New Criterion’s first annual Circle Lecture.
On the pernicious legacy of Vladimir Lenin.
On Italian art battles, atomic bombs, mourning Chippendale & more.
On the human cost of a persistent and pernicious political doctrine.
Orwell on the Left’s class confusion, and Hollande’s hollow “change.”
On the inaccuracy of a common term.
On the pervasive influence of the American utopian.
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