{"id":274,"date":"2024-11-06T04:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:53:14","slug":"worth-remembering-today-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-1978-harvard-commencement-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Worth remembering today: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1978 Harvard Commencement Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was living in Jamaica at the time but remember the reactions to this speech. Expecting to hear him denounce the Soviet State the survivor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gulag\">Gulag Archipelago<\/a> instead called the West to a return to moral values. It did not sit well with liberal elites. Go here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/speeches\/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm\">Harvard Commencement Address &#8211; A World Split Apart&#0160;<\/a> if you want to read or see the whole speech.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LIHRUKuUK-I?si=YG72zH2YbK0vTz7f\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was living in Jamaica at the time but remember the reactions to this speech. Expecting to hear him denounce the Soviet State the survivor of the Gulag Archipelago instead called the West to a return to moral values. It did not sit well with liberal elites. Go here Harvard Commencement Address &#8211; A World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7064,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/7064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}