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Remembering Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Warning to the West’

Remembering Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Warning to the West’
Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn waves from a train in Vladivostok, Russia, on June 1, 1994. Michael Estafiev/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Fifty years ago this month, Soviet exile and Russian Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delivered the first of five speeches to U.S. and UK audiences that were subsequently published as a book titled “Warning to the West.” Now, a half-century later, it behooves us to remember both Solzhenitsyn and his warning.
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.