I finished reading “War and Peace” today. Seldom have I read a book so engrossing. Tolstoy’s thesis that there is no such thing as free will is well argued. Everything a person does, in historical hindsight, is shaped by his circumstances and by those surrounding him. A leader has power only as expressed through the will of those he leads.
A very relevant novel in our current political times. A reminder of the role Russia played in our common western cultural history.
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