Thirty-five years ago today – on June 8, 1978 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who had arrived in the United States three years earlier, delivered the commencement address at Harvard University. The “Harvard Address,” as it has popularly come to be known, is most likely Solzhenitsyn’s most famous work of non-fiction. Sadly, today it is more vital […]
Solzhetnitsyn: Prophet and Critic
by Fr. Hans Jacobse Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the courageous Russian writer, contributed indispensably to bringing down the Soviet Union. Conventional Western opinion sees his story, too, as ending then. But the conflict of good against evil and truth against lies runs throughout the moral universe, not just the Soviet scene. Moreover, half of his writings are […]