Aleksander Solzhenitsyn has died. Solzhenitsyn was an unusually strong-minded and uncompromising man who looked like an Old Testament prophet or Captain Ahab, and acted somewhat like both. Rest in peace.
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Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely 
August 4th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
An interestimg person. I have always swung back and forth on him given different knwings at different times. Though i can be sure that every old world latvian i ever knew had a copy of his book. to think that he probably held back doesnt jibe with youngers who think that he is over exagerating.
one more for the pile of novels and confessionals having something to tell the world that it just doesnt want to hear or believe..
(read Dear God i wanted to live, by ruta U. shows what one week can do to last a lifetime)
August 4th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
A giant without whom we would not know a significant degree of the truth… The entire “Gulag” volumes, which I read shortly after publishing, should be required history reading now for everyone under 25…
August 5th, 2008 at 1:58 am
A remarkable man and a courageous voice against the tyranny of the Soviet era. My parents had The Gulag Archipelago, from which I read as a teenager. He even spoke out against some of the excesses of the new Russian oligarchy. He had his quirks, of course, but was nevertheless a symbol and spokesman for freedom for a dark period of Russian history.
August 5th, 2008 at 3:41 am
Everybody should read his Harvard Adress – the most profound critique of self-destructive tendencies of western liberalism. Thirty years later it has not lost a bit of its actuality – an astonishing feature for political speech! See
.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978.html