Why people are willing to die for an idea
From beyond the grave, they shape our lives more than they did when they when they were alive. By Costica Bradatan
June 18
The Washington Post
Costica Bradatan is an Associate Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University. His latest book is "Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers." Moscow, Oct. 7, 2006. Anna Politkovskaya, a prominent Russian journalist, human rights activist and vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin, was found dead in the elevator of the block of flats where she lived.