Dostoevsky's Flaw -- And Ours

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I wish to bring to your attention a fascinating essay by the scholar of Russian literature Gary Saul Morson. It concerns Dostoevsky’s intense anti-Semitism. I am not a serious reader of Dostoevsky, and therefore did not realize that he was a Jew-hater of the first rank. It shocked me to learn this, because I had always thought of him as a deep Christian…