Solzhenitsyn’s Continuing Relevance to American Politics and Culture

Over at VoegelinView, John P. Moran reviews the new Deavel/Wilson anthology.

“Solzhenitsyn did not believe that freedom could exist in the absence of virtue. A freedom geared toward satisfying only the enjoyment of material possessions is a freedom easily sacrificed. Indeed, when Solzhenitsyn was asked by Bernard Levin if people might be willing to cast off their freedom to be slaves, he replied, “Yes, today’s Western Europe is full of such people” (43). Deavel suggests that this could just as easily be applied to America.”