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Russian author Boris Pasternak in the study of his home near Moscow. (Jerry Cooke via Getty Images)
How Boris Pasternak defied Soviet tyranny with a Shakespeare sonnet.
By Douglas Murray
02.19.23 — Culture and Ideas
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There’s a lot about our world that is broken and needs to be fixed. If you’re a reader of The Free Press, you know that well. Part of the job—arguably the job—of good journalism is to expose that brokenness. It’s to shine a light in the dark places.

But I worry that by focusing so much on what isn’t working, we sometimes forget what is. 

If ours is an era…

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Douglas Murray

Douglas Murray is the best-selling author of seven books, and is a regular contributor at the New York Post, National Review, and other publications. His work as a reporter has taken him to Iraq, North Korea, northern Nigeria, and Ukraine. Born in London, he now lives in New York.

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