Gary Saul Morson explores how people persuade themselves that they believe what they don’t really believe in order to conform.

About the Speaker:
Gary Saul Morson is Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University, and a preeminent scholar of Russian literature. His favorite writers are Chekhov, Gogol, and, above all, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Professor Morson has won “best book of the year” awards from the American Comparative Literature Association and the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.