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December 3, 2020

Lessons in Democracy from One of Its Greatest Jewish Advocates

For Natan Sharansky, freedom and nationalism are two sides of the same coin.

The former refusenik, and former head of the Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky recently released a widely circulated video giving advice on weathering quarantine, based on his own experiences in solitary confinement in KGB prisons. To Matthew Continetti, this video is yet another example of the variegated nature of its creator’s abilities and accomplishments. Reviewing Never Alone, a recent book by Sharansky and the historian Gil Troy, Continetti writes:

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