Today marks the 35th anniversary since Alexander Solzhenitsyn's famous Harvard Address. Solzhenitsyn remains almost completely unknown today, though I mean this in two senses: there are many who don't recognize even his name or don't know who he is even if his name is recognized, or there are those who know who he is but still cannot understand what his message was. This address, for instance, was highly criticized by those both on the political Left and the political Right. The speech, however, transcends this sometimes simplistic division. Further, though, and perhaps more importantly, this speech, I have come to believe, really can't be understood outside of the context of Orthodoxy. I hope to write more on this speech in the future, but for now, I hope you enjoy Solzhenitsyn in his own words... He, along with Dostoevsky, remains one of the most fascinating prophets of our modern world.
A World Split Apart
See the above link for the full text of his Harvard Address.
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