A World Split Apart

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By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Foreword by David Aikman
(2002)

Group Discussion Guide available here (PDF)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard Commencement Address set off a furor among American intellectuals and media professionals when it was first delivered. At the dawn of a new millennium and in the face of a major new world challenge after September 11, 2001, it is worth reexamining Solzhenitsyn’s speech--now appearing eerily prescient and equally foreboding. What does it have to say today? How accurate were his warnings about the dangers facing the United States and the West? Do his severe criticisms of the weaknesses of American life and culture still apply?

In his Foreword, Senior Fellow David Aikman unpacks Solzhenitsyn’s warnings and examines where the West stands now.

Category: Readings (No. 31)

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

G. K. Chesterton

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