brainwashing, 87–88
Bratislava, Slovakia, 3–4, 6, 66, 90, 165, 169
Brave New World (Huxley), 10, 184, 212
Budapest, Hungary, 183
Bullough, Oliver, 157
Bush, George W., 50–51
Butovo Shooting Range, 100, 123, 124
Calciu, George, 159–60, 201–4, 206
Camus, Albert, 158
cancel culture, 40
Candle Demonstration, 66, 155, 168, 171
capitalism, ix
surveillance, 75–79, 93
woke, 71–75
The Captive Mind (Miłosz), 9
Cardijn, Joseph, 5
Čarnogurský, Ján, 171, 174–75
Catholic Worker movement, 64
change, accepting, 206
Charter 77 (dissident community), 142–43
child-raising. See Benda family guide to child-raising
China, 84–88
Beijing, 85, 86
social credit system of, 86–87
surveillance in, 84, 85–86
Chinese Communist Party, 84–85
Christakis, Erika, 62–63
Christakis, Nicholas, 62–63
Christian dissidents, 18–19, 93–94, 156
Christian father, 133–34
Christian home, 134
Christian hope, 52, 66, 151, 155, 157, 172
Christianity, xiii, 55–56, 126–27
. See also specific topics
for days to come, 204–5
Sipko on, 173
social justice and, 63–65
solidarity and, 174–77, 181
Christians, 67–68
. See also specific topics
of Czechoslovakia, 4
inner peace of, 151–52
Christian values, 211
church, 118
. See also underground church
Cicero, 113
cigarettes, miracle of, 160–61
cities, sanctuary, 120–22
civic trust, 32
civil rights, 51
civil unrest, 26
classical liberalism, 29, 50
Clinton, Bill, 72
clothing, 139
Cold War, ix, 13, 71, 72, 112
collective action, 18
commands of Christ, 191
commitments to marriage, 129
commitment to Christ, 4–5
common goals, 142
communal witness to future generations, 123–26
communism, ix, x, xi, 4, 16–17
appeal in Russia, 24–27
conditions of, 119–20
heroes of resistance to, 67
ideologies of, 116
Sályi on, 49
society under, 97–98
Soviet, 7, 22, 28–29
surveys on, 112
Communist Manifesto, 97
communities
individuals rescued by, 169–71
Romaszewska, Zofia, on, 180
comradeship, 178, 181
concentration camps, 84
conditions of communism, 119–20
confessions, 196, 198
conformity, 97–98
confronting lies, 108–9
Connerton, Paul, 114, 115, 116
consciences, 212
conservatives, 8, 63, 72
conservative views, xii–xiii
consumerism, 76, 88, 133
control, social, 89–90
corporate social responsibility, 73–74, 75
corporations, 72–73, 74–75
courage, 136–37, 168, 170
COVID-19, 29–30
the crowd, life apart from, 100–103
cult of social justice, 9–10, 42–43, 59–60
cultural discernment, 149
cultural memory, 114, 115, 116, 117, 126–27, 145
culture, pre-totalitarian, 36, 38, 44, 93
culture war, 73
Cummins, Jeanine, 40
current events, xvi
Czechoslovakia, 3, 4, 122, 129–30
data, 77–79, 81, 83, 85–86, 89
Day of Remembrance (Russia), 123
death row, 195–96
definitions of totalitarianism, 30
democracy, ix, xiv–xv, 51
Deng Xiaoping, 84
Derrida, Jacques, 121
Der Spiegel (magazine), 70
desires for transgression and destruction, 34–35
destruction, desire for, 34–35
Diaghilev, Sergei, 47–48, 66
dictatorship, 7, 48, 136, 148
of Big Brother, 14
of lies, xiv, 16, 107–8, 122
of relativism, 116
difficulties
marriage, 133
of young people, 183, 184
dignity of individual, 131–32
discernment, cultural, 149
disciples, admirers contrasted with, 188–91
discourses, 62
dissidents, Christian, 18–19, 93–94, 156
. See also specific topics
diversity, 143
The Diversity Delusion (Mac Donald), 73–74
divine revelation, 197, 198
doctrines, 58
doublethink, 14, 15, 103–5
Dudko, Dmitry, 156–57
Durkheim, Émile, 33
Eich, Brendan, 40
elites, xi, 41, 42, 82, 93
American, 29, 115
Arendt on, 34–35
intellectual, 37
liberal, x
Mounk on, 34
equality, 54
errors, anthropological, 65
evading lies, 18
Evangelicals, 172, 173, 174
evangelism, 156
evangelization, 5, 27–30
executions, 187–88
exile, 55
existence, postmodern mode of, 10–13
expectations, 199–201
expertise, society and, 39–41
Facebook, 77–78, 80
facial recognition technology, 86
faith, 185, 186, 206
Calciu on, 159–60
in God, 153
in hierarchies and institutions, 32–34, 44
families, 118, 129
Benda, V., on, 130–32, 133–34
“see, judge, act” motto and, 149–50
social importance of, 145–48
totalitarianism and, 130–35
traditional, 132–33
The Family (Catholic group), 5, 6, 19, 210
“The Family and the Totalitarian State” (Benda, V.), 130
fatalism, futuristic, 44–46
fear, 139, 168, 188
fellowship, small-group, 150, 182
fidelity, 176
Figes, Orlando, 117
fighting for free speech, 103–5
Fink, Larry, 74–75
fortresses of memory, 117–20
free consciences, 212
freedom, 13, 69, 131, 168, 173, 210–11
free speech, 103–5
the future, 54, 66
future generations, communal witness to, 123–26
futuristic fatalism, 44–46
Gallup, Inc., 33
gathering of data, 83, 85–86, 89
gathering storm, shelter from, 93–94
gentleness of soft totalitarianism, 9–10
Germany, 32–33, 52, 70, 71
gifts
of marriage, 131–32
suffering as, 193–99
Girard, René, 10
globalization, 72–73
God
faith in, 153
saboteurs of, 212–14
Goldberg, Zach, 37
Google, 77–78, 79, 81–82
Gordimer, Nadine, 21
Grand March, 49–50, 68
Gray, John, 53
greater good, sacrifices for, 140–41
greengrocer metaphor, 97–99
grief, 177–79, 193
Grygorenko, Vladimir, 103–4
The Guardian (newspaper), 77
guilt, 35, 42, 57, 59
Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn), xiv, 165, 193–94, 199
gulags, 85, 111, 113, 158, 195, 206
habits, 30, 66, 78–79, 90, 112, 115
Hanby, Michael, 64
The Harvard Crimson (magazine), 112
Havel, Václav, 97–100, 108–9, 134
heresy-hunters, 56–59
heroes of communist resistance, 67
hierarchies, faith in, 32–34, 44
High Noon, 137
historical memory, 113, 124
history, 126–27
honoring sacrifices, 210
hope, 22, 48, 51, 67, 127, 214
Christian, 52, 66, 151, 155, 157, 172
for the future, 54
of religion, xv
hospitality, 143–45, 149–50
How Societies Remember (Connerton), 114
human condition, 207
Hungarians, persecution of, 106, 107
Hunt, Gus, 83
Hunter, James Davison, 41
Husák, Gustáv, 113
Huxley, Aldous, 10, 88, 184, 185, 205, 212
hymns, 154
hypocrisy, 16, 185
idealists, 38
identity politics, 61, 65
ideologies, xii, xiv, 7, 101
of communism, 116
of language, 119–20
mania for, 38–39
of social justice, xv, 94
soft totalitarianism and, 15
imaginations, moral, 137–39
individualism, 71–72, 89, 133
individuals
dignity of, 131–32
small communities rescuing, 169–71
information technology, 71, 125
inner peace, Christians experiencing, 151–52
institutions, faith in, 32–34, 44
intellectual elites, 37
intellectuals as revolutionary class, 41–43
intersectionality, of social justice, 62
inward dissent (ketman), 14, 16–17, 108
Jägerstätter, Franz, 189
Jesus Christ, 64, 158–60, 173, 190, 192, 198
commands of, 191
commitment to, 4–5
freedom connected to, 168
service to, 134
Jocists, 5
John of Kronstadt (priest), 178
John Paul II (pope), 65
journalism, 18, 37
Kaleda, Kirill, 100, 101, 102, 124, 125, 194–95
Kęska, Paweł, 147–48, 176–77
ketman (inward dissent), 14, 16–17, 108
KGB (Russian secret police), 159, 198
Kierkegaard, Søren, 189–90
kindness, 176
Kolaković, Tomislav, 3–4, 5–6, 7, 19, 207
Kołakowski, Leszek, 114, 115
Komáromi, Mária, 148, 178–79, 186–87
Komsomol (communist youth league), 101, 195
Korec, Ján Chryzostom, 169
Krčméry, Silvester, 45, 191, 207
solidarity of, 192–93
spiritual exercises of, 152–55
Križka, Petra, 90–91
Križka, Timo, 90, 209–11
Krylenko, N. V., 39
Kundera, Milan, 47, 49, 91, 112–13
laborers, 22
Lanchester, John, 85
language, 127
ideological abuse of, 119–20
reality created by, 62–63
Latsis, Martin, 58–59
Lenin, Vladimir, 27
letters, from Benda, V., 140–41
Lewis, C. S., 213
liberalism, classical, 29, 50
liberals
elite, x
secular, 175, 176
liberty, 212
lies, 14
. See also specific topics
confronting, 108–9
dictatorship of, xiv, 16, 107–8, 122
evading, 18
useful, 35–38
Wittner on, 104–5
life apart from the crowd, 100–103
Lindsay, James A., 60
“Live Not by Lies!” (Solzhenitsyn), xiv, 214
living in truth, 17–19, 99, 101
loneliness, 31–32, 178–79, 181
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), 138
love, 131, 182, 203
loyalty, society valuing, 39–41
Mac Donald, Heather, 73–74
Malick, Terrence, 188, 189
mania for ideologies, 38–39
Mao Zedong, 84
marginalization, 146, 185
Margolius Kovály, Heda, 35–36, 38
marriage
commitments to, 129
difficulties, 133
gifts of, 131–32
martyrs, 123, 147, 148, 194, 204, 206
Marx, Karl, 24–25, 30, 52, 54
Marxism, 24–25, 26, 29, 43, 55, 61
materialism, 156
Maurin, Peter, 64
Mechev, Alexei, 178
meditation, 154
memory, 122, 125
Connerton on, 114
cultural, 114, 115, 116, 117, 126–27, 145
fortresses of, 117–20
historical, 113, 124
mental-health crisis, 92
mercy, 199–201
Mikeladze, Evgeni, 177
Mikeladze, Vakhtang, 177–78
Mikloško, František, 169–70, 175, 176
militancy, progressive, xiii
Mill, John Stuart, 52
Miłosz, Czesław, 9, 15, 16, 17, 41–42
miracles, 160–61
mobs, x, xii
modernity, 50–53, 115
moral courage, 136–37
moral imaginations, 137–39
Moscow, Russia, 21, 47, 123, 156–57, 158–59
Mounk, Yascha, 34
movies, 144, 145
Murray, Douglas, 81
Myth of Progress, 46, 48, 49–50, 51, 54
myths, political, 67
Nazism, 189
New Testament, 153
new totalitarianism, 7, 185
New York Times, The, 36
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