In The Captive Mind, Czesław Miłosz provides a penetrating exploration of the human psyche under the oppressive regime of Soviet-imposed Communism in Eastern Europe. It was originally published in ...

Most of the tributes and obituaries for Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) laid due emphasis on his artistic and intellectual prescience concerning fascism and communism. To have survived the Nazi invasion of ...

I’m reading the anti-communist Polish dissident poet Czeslaw Milosz’s great book The Captive Mind. He wrote it in 1951, to illuminate the mindset of intellectuals who assented to communist ...

Classic Archie Shepp honked and shrieked from the stereo’s speakers as I delved yet again into “The Captive Mind” by Czeslaw Milosz this past week. Readers might recognize the author’s name from the ...

The young choreographer who wrote the script and designed the production, Robert Bondara, came up with the idea for this piece some years ago. The ballet in two scenes is not completely true to the ...

In many responses to the first days of the second Trump Presidency—expressions of an outrage denied the refuge of surprise—a historical analogy recurs: Is this how it felt to be a progressive liberal ...