To Today’s Cosmopolitan and “Oikophobic” Left, Israel Can Never Be Acceptable
The chosen and the woke.
August 23, 2019
The (fictional) Jewish prisoner who brought about Solzhenitsyn’s conversion.
During his time in Stalin’s prison camps, the dissident Soviet novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn came to reject socialism altogether and eventually to embrace Orthodox Christianity. In a penetrating essay on Solzhenitsyn’s magnum opus, The Gulag Archipelago, Gary Saul Morson investigates this conversion, and also its relationship to Communist ideology itself:
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Seeing past the hysteria.
“A crossbreed of dogs and wolves that has pounced on the convoy of humanity.”
The letters of Aharon Dovid Shainberg.
The (fictional) Jewish prisoner who brought about Solzhenitsyn’s conversion.