Tag Archives: Tolstoy
When Getting It Right Doesn’t Matter
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 14th September 2025I recently read a review of a movie that involved historical events. The review was generally favorable; its only criticism was that the history was not accurate. I didn’t think about this for very long. I watched the movie and enjoyed it. I quickly forgot the film (and its name) as well as its supposed…
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Tolstoy On Medicine
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 1st August 2013Almost a century and a half latter medicine has not changed greatly from the way Tolstoy described it: “What would Sonya and the Count and Countess have done, how could they have gone on watching the weak and languishing Natasha, had there been nothing for them to do, had there not been those pills to…
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