The Corner

Lions

Jonah, there is one more anti-Communist lion, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Of them all, he had the fewest resources. Reagan and Thatcher ruled states, the Pope ruled a church. Solzhenitsyn had his pen. He took on the evil empire first, and he was alone. Talk about being not afraid.

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.
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