Tribute to Norm Geras
I was saddened to learn on Sunday evening that Norm Geras, one of my favourite writers, died last week. Norm was, for this reader, a “Sunday evening blogger”. Where many writers, journalists, and reports can be easily read while on a conference call or during a hurried droid-assisted walk through a train station, Normblog, as it was called, commanded one’s full attention and a dedicated sitting. Norm Geras was a particularly rare kind of Marxist; like Karl Marx himself, he …