The 19th Century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote about characters who justified murder in the name of their ideological beliefs. For this reason, John Gray argues, he's remained relevant ever since, through the rise of the totalitarian states of the 20th Century, to the "war against terror".When liberalism becomes illiberalism.
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A Point of View: The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state
John Gray
