Rightwing Simpletons, Self-Immolators, and Flame Fanners

Ideas are living cultural forces that have the capacity to seduce and subordinate the individual — Dostoevsky

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Constance Garnett translated the majority of Russian literature into English in the first half of the twentieth century. After translating Dostoevsky’s novel Demons, Garnett changed the…