Guerre and Shalom

Guerre and Shalom

Justice Realised

How the academic-artist Michael Sugrue (1957-2024) found recognition in his lifetime

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Daniel Clarke-Serret
Sep 20, 2024
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Michael Sugrue: An Intellectual Life - The American Conservative

A life changing event it most certainly was. There I stood, granite-faced before the Franz Kafka museum of Prague. And I wept. In that moment, I saw my future life if I weren’t to make that change: to advance beyond cowardice. Like Kafka before me I had been a failed lawyer; trained to no avail. Like Kafka, I had been languishing in the dispiriting offi…

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