Western Ketman and the Captive Mind

Seventy-three years have passed since the publication of Czesław Miłosz’s The Captive Mind. The book appeared in 1953, two years after Miłosz’s defection to the West, and was received largely with enthusiasm, as a rare analysis of an East that the Iron Curtain had rendered distant and obscure. The Captive Mind is not a history … Read more