Quotes About Gessen

There can be a conspiracy, but the presence of a conspiracy is actually not an excuse for conspiracy thinking.

It is so impossible to predict how much influence what you write will have, and what sorts of anxieties and imaginaries it will tap into.

But reason was helpless against demagogy.

American media effectively declared the Russian story dead

In its 2010 report, the organization showed Russia as more corrupt than 86 percent of the world:

Like Browder, Illarionov became a tireless and vocal roaming critic of the Putin regime.

I left the world of jail with plenty of relief but, more than anything, with a sense of unease that I still can't quite shake.

She had such control of tone , in her text messages, she was the Edith Wharton of text messaging.

The imputation to Brodsky of Russian nationalist views is, of course, paradoxical and worth considering.