“Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the Holy Book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.” These opening lines of the remarkable but provocative commencement speech delivered by the Russian thinker Joseph Brotsky (24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) at Ann Arbor Stadium, Michigan, to the graduating class of 1988, offers a most valuable lesson on good personhood and the meaning of life. “Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger,” he continues, “for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed finger is a victim’s logo.”