Born in Radom, in eastern Poland, in 1927, the philosopher Leszek Kolakowski is closing in on his eightieth year. He has come a long way. He was a boy of twelve when the Nazis stormed into Poland. “I ...

How the Marxist-turned-Catholic-conservative remains the pre-eminent thinker for our age of tragedy. By Madoc Cairns When the Communist Party found Leszek Kolakowski he had nothing at all. His country ...

“You need to read Kolakowski,” said the person I was with. “He’s got a great chapter about what he calls ‘the Promethean motif’ in Marxism – the idea that it’s the destiny of ...