# Czesław Miłosz Polish poet and essayist, Nobel laureate (1980), and author of [[The Captive Mind]] (1953) — the classic anatomy of how intellectuals rationalize submission to totalitarian ideology. A defector from Stalinist Poland, Miłosz is a touchstone in the vault's coverage of authoritarianism and the psychology of ideological capture. *Stub — expand with: defection and exile, The Captive Mind's "Ketman" concept, Berkeley years, the poetry.*