Increased scrutiny of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man has raised questions about the connection between words and deeds, and about the moral responsibilities of thinkers and writers living under brutal regimes.
The Secret Intelligence Service (today’s MI6) had been established in 1909, but it was to come into its own in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution that swept Lenin’s Bolsheviks to power.
Through modern history, political cartoonists and caricaturists have been threatened, censored, jailed, and even murdered because of their often underappreciated but unusually potent art.
