Progressivism’s Russian Playbook with Gary Saul Morson | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #117
May 21, 2026
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as posted by the channelOn this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with Gary Saul Morson, a professor of Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University and a scholar of Russian literature about what Dostoevsky can teach us about modern progressives.
In our round-up of the week’s best investigative reporting, Zane and Varney discuss a Wall Street Journal article about China’s stranglehold on drone production, Roger Pielke Jr.’s Substack piece on a dramatic change in climate change forecasts, and a Daily Wire story on the Los Angeles arsonists who drew inspiration from the assassin Luigi Mangione.
Articles Discussed in This Podcast:
• Gary Saul MorsonRePossessed Commentary Magazine ()
• Gary Saul MorsonSolzhenitsyn Warned Us Commentary Magazine ()
• Gary Saul MorsonThe Return of the ‘Useful Idiot’ Commentary Magazine ()
• Gary Saul MorsonThe Red Star Returns The New Criterion ()
• Gary Saul MorsonMarxism Is a Gulag of the Mind WSJ ()
• Wall Street JournalU.S. Targets China's Stranglehold on Drone Production ()
• Roger Pielke Jr. SubstackNew Climate Report Eliminates Most Extreme Scenarios ()
• Daily WireLA Arson Suspect Obsessed Over Luigi Mangione ()
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