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Solzhenitsyn's World: Ours, too -- the commencement address at 25.
It was the most notorious commencement speech of the 20th century -- and probably the greatest. On June 8, 1978 -- 25 years ago -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn stood up at Harvard and delivered "A World Split Apart." It featured an unsparing analysis of the West, and its spiritual health.
Let it be said that National Review was pro-Solzhenitsyn before pro- Solzhenitsyn was cool. Is it unquestionably cool now? Well, it is cooler, at least. We at NR had our criticisms, but we actually published the address, in our issue of July 7, 1978. When we laid out the title, we spaced the words "split" and "apart" on opposite sides of the page. Aren't we clever?
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