James Delingpole James Delingpole

A Berlin Wall moment for political correctness

The uniformity of thought required by the establishment today is reminiscent of the old Eastern Bloc

issue 28 January 2017

Because we’re all so obsessed with what it was that made the Nazis tick, we tend to overlook the bigger mystery of how hundreds of millions of people, for a period considerably longer than the lifespan of Hitler’s Germany, remained under the spell of communism.

This is a question that Czeslaw Milosz set out to answer in his 1953 classic The Captive Mind.

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