40 Years Ago Today: When Solzhenitsyn Schooled Harvard

At the American Conservative two days ago, Jeff Groom recapitulates the Harvard address and concludes that many of Solzhenitsyn's challenges to Western societies are yet to be met.

“Forty years after a ‘World Split Apart’, as Americans search for answers to our present state of dissatisfaction, our leaders and citizens would be wise to heed the central theme of Solzhenitsyn’s message:

’It is time, in the West, to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.’”