Solzhenitsyn: ‘The next war may well bury Western civilization forever’ - Daniel Lattier

In 1978, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was invited to give the commencement address at Harvard University.

• What he offered to the students and faculty some forty years ago was not your typical graduation speech filled with banal platitudes.

Instead—in a perhaps unsurprising move for a Russian who spent 11 years in labor camps and exile—he offered them one of the most sobering and penetrating diagnoses of the West in recent history.
And what was his diagnosis?
That the West is in decline...

“A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations.”...