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Worth noting that his "Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address" will get him trump supporter and far-right labels easily. A couple of my friends jok
by nopriorarrests 8y ago
Worth noting that his "Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address" will get him trump supporter and far-right labels easily. A couple of my friends joked that this is a deplatforming material in 2018.
- leoh 8y agoHaving trouble understanding -- can you explain?
- nopriorarrests 8y agoWell, you can read it here in full -- https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenit... It's not that long actually. For example, here is Solzhenitsin about western press (keep in mind, this is 1978): Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic disease of the 20th century and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. Such as it is, however, the press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislative power, the executive, and the judiciary. And one would then like to ask: By what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? In the communist East a journalist is frankly appointed as a state official. But who has granted Western journalists their power, for how long a time, and with what prerogatives?