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Solzhenitsyn in exile
Christopher Caldwell, National Review
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Solzhenitsyn became convinced during his long exile that, far from being a reliable defender of others’ liberty, the West was at risk of fumbling away its own. He saw in the rich nations a “blindness of superiority,” a “decline in courage,” relativism, litigiousness, and a sense of responsibility to God that was growing “dimmer and dimmer.”