Nikolai Stavrogin is one of the most essential characters to understanding the novel Demons. In the name of playing fair and applying the character of Stepan Verkhovensky to the text of McWhorter’s Woke Racism, I shall apply the mysterious morality struggle of Nikolai to my own struggles, and how McWhorter’s ideas impacted my thinking much the same way …
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