Eastern Europe Through the Telescope
On fools and war
Men are made into fools by war, especially if they are not fighting one.
The war in Ukraine has made a great number of men into fools. They play their cellos “in protest” before the Russian embassy. They take Tchaikovsky off their program and Tolstoy off their shelves. They rescind scholarships to Russian students.
They are fools, not because their action…
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