Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s work and life can best be described as those of a prophet. The prophet died Sunday at the age of 89. Solzhenitsyn was not only a critic of the Soviet Union, of communism and Socialism; he showed the West — particularly the United States — more than a few of its own flaws.
Thirty years ago this summer, Solzhenitsyn gave an address at Harvard that was biting in its critique, exemplary in its wisdom and visionary in its predictions for what the future would hold should America and the West remain on their present path. It was a monumental speech that many academics — at Harvard and elsewhere — who had cheered Solzhenitsyn while he resided in the gulag hated, but I loved.
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