Solzhenitsyn’s Prescient Account of “A World Split Apart”

At Law and Liberty yesterday, Mark Judge reflects on the major themes of the Harvard address.

“In a lecture full of striking pronouncements, this warning about the nature and quality of statesmanship stands out. The signs of a “threatened or perishing society,” Solzhenitsyn said, were two: “a decline of the arts [and] a lack of great statesmen. Indeed, sometimes the warnings are quite explicit and concrete.””