the Words Made Flesh

    B efore he became the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky played the part on television. He created and starred in a comedy series, Servant of the People.  His character, a high-school history teacher, is surreptitiously recorded by one of his students as he passionately rants against the tyranny of corruption in his nation.  Without his knowledge, the video goes viral. Without campaigning or even wanting the job, the teacher is improbably elected president of Ukraine. The humble everyman, out of his depths in nearly every respect, goes on to become a heroic leader of his country.r Entertainers who enter politics are rightly treated with suspicion, because they are experts at the most dangerous part of the job, the manipulation of mass emotion.  And in Ukraine, any outsider who rises to power engenders even greater suspicion because the assumption is that they must be doing the bidding of some shadowy force or other. As Zelensky has stumbled through his...

Christos Sartzetakis, the young judge who despite pressure and threats from some of his superiors, did not deflate, and surprised everyone by accusing the colonel of the Thessaloniki gendarmerie for premeditated murder and, abuse of power, and obstruction of justice, in the case from the assassination of the independent deputy Grigoris Lambrakis on May 22, 1963, just left us at the age of 92. He was sublimely embodied by Jean-Louis Trintignant in Costa Gavras film, Z. We will continue to honor his integrity and courage.