The risks of independent thought

Not only does this review article, of Lesley Chamberlain's Lenin's Private War, seen on Arts & Letters Daily, provide more context for Lenin's infamous remark that 'The revolution has no need for historians,' but also sketches the cultural importance of philosophy in Russian political history. While the parallels the article makes are general and almost inevitably given the length of the review, a little caricatured, it reminds me of many of the gaps in my own education - in philosophy, for example - but also of the difficulties the western European left had in coming to terms with the (Bolshevik) Russian revolution and its consequences for hopes of civil liberties and the rapid narrowing and stifling of discussion about what a society that supposedly had more respect for 'human' values than others ought to be like.

A short and not actually at all serious reflection during editing work

Types 'Borg' into the author field, and 'Representations of the divine' into title field.

Sounds like a caricature storyline for a late, desperate episode of Star Trek: Voyager, where the Borg discover God.