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The Devil is more than a symbol In his column for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia website, Archbishop Charles Chaput told a story about the scholar Leszek Kołakowski. Kołakowski was giving a lecture at Harvard on “The Devil in History”. The mood in the room became restless: the distinguished audience “couldn’t figure out where he was going with his lecture”, Archbishop Chaput wrote.
“Present that day were the historians Tony Judt and Timothy Garton Ash. About 10 minutes into the talk, Ash leaned over to Judt and whispered incredulously: ‘I’ve got it. He really is talking about the Devil.’ And in fact, he was.”
