Western Thought

Episode 46: The Murder of Isaac Babel


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This month we become more of a history podcast. Discussing the Bolshevik revolution, money, power. What it might mean to try and be a revolutionary. Babel's phrase about the artistic strictures instituted on writers in Stalinism; "My friends, we are not allowed to write badly anymore." There's no such strictures on podcasts - as we have happily explored. Also, Babel's murder was sad, and as is our want, we think it would be a good play. Come sit in the bookstore for a while.
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