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No sacred cows

Now – as in the Soviet Union – making a joke can be a dangerous, life-changing mistake

6 April 2019

9:00 AM

6 April 2019

9:00 AM

I was surprised to learn that the novelist Milan Kundera celebrated his 90th birthday on Monday. I had no idea he was still alive. He has taken up residence in that old people’s home that many former luminaries of western culture now occupy — the one with the sign above the door saying ‘Forgotten, but not gone’.

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