And one word of truth would “outweigh the whole world.” His admonition and courage and confidence were needed then, including in Russia; they are needed now, even in America.

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In politics, like in popular culture, a vocabulary comes into being that is used and misused until it either loses its meaning or seems no longer relevant or just gets old. I don’t think too many ...

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President Joe Biden couldn’t have been clearer. At the dawn of his administration, he began with an unequivocal declaration about the fundamental importance truth plays in our democracy — and, ...

Writers and artists, Solzhenitsyn said, would conquer falsehoods in the end. The “nakedness of violence” would be “revealed ...

In October 1970, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature.” In his Nobel ...