Then he loaned me his bike for a year when we were in Budapest. I climbed the Buda hills on a Nobel Laureate’s bike. Wild!

Irina Denischenko brought him to the Harriman Institute when we were grad students at Columbia and I got to spend some time with him. Such a glorious kook and a great writer!

Thank you! These are great! Can’t wait to dig in!

Would love to read yours too! Do you have anything at the sharing stage on the Czech book world? I likewise know little about the world outside of Russia but I’ve been talking to a few people who work across the post socialist world. My next project will likely be more comparative

They even made it Book of the Day here: youtu.be/LfeVB3biL0o?...

Or, you know, how does the illegal abduction and visa revocation of students fit into this ideal of universities being honestly beholden to taxpayers?

Awwww! Thanks, Gen! I hope it has something to say to our current moment. I think the embrace of capitalist nihilism traced in the book is a global phenomenon that makes us pretty vulnerable to the vindictive nihilism coming at us from all angles these days.

Then maybe buy my book: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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