Introducing a Sunday Series from Douglas Murray: Things Worth Remembering

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.
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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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