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  • Some Americans Think MLK is Endorsing Trump for President

    Some Americans Think MLK is Endorsing Trump for President0

    We’ve long suspected that American students are being given the short end of the stick on subjects such as reading and history, while gaining heavy instruction about diversity in race, class, and gender. But if the video below is any indication, it would seem that Americans aren’t learning much history about diversity either. The video,

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  • Solzhenitsyn: ‘The next war may well bury Western civilization forever’

    Solzhenitsyn: ‘The next war may well bury Western civilization forever’2

    In 1978, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was invited to give the commencement address at Harvard University. What he offered to the students and faculty some forty years ago was not your typical graduation speech filled with banal platitudes. Instead—in a perhaps unsurprising move for a Russian who spent 11 years in labor camps and exile—he offered them

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  • Solzhenitsyn, Suffering, and the Meaning of Life

    Solzhenitsyn, Suffering, and the Meaning of Life1

    “Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”                                                                                 – Alexander Solzhenitsyn   Older readers will hardly need reminding of

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  • Solzhenitsyn, Lysenkoism, and the Lies of the Revolution

    Solzhenitsyn, Lysenkoism, and the Lies of the Revolution3

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was the most important Soviet dissident, but his message was accessible to all. On the day before he was sent into exile in 1974, he published a short essay entitled “Live Not By Lies.” It only takes him a few pages to lay out the most effective strategy for resisting totalitarianism. As Solzhenitsyn

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  • Solzhenitsyn on Russia and the West

    Solzhenitsyn on Russia and the West0

    In 1998 I had the inestimable pleasure and honour of interviewing Alexander Solzhenitsyn at his home outside Moscow. As I traveled to Russia I had no idea why he should have granted me an exclusive interview when he had shunned the advances of Western writers much more accomplished and better known. He had a reputation

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  • Solitary Confinement is Quite Common In Public Schools

    Solitary Confinement is Quite Common In Public Schools0

    If parents were to lock their children in a confined space for a lengthy period of time, it is highly likely that those parents would be arrested for child abuse and their parental rights threatened. (In fact, this just happened in Arizona recently.) If public schools do this, however, the outcome is quite different. The

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