Live not by lies. Is there anything more fundamental? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn didn’t think so.
In 1974, when writing on the consequences of standing up to Soviet totalitarianism, Solzhenitsyn wrote: “Yes, at first it will not be fair. Someone will have to temporarily lose his job.”
“For the young who seek to live by truth,”
this will at first severely complicate life, for their tests and quizzes, too, are stuffed with lies, and so choices will have to be made. But there is no loophole left for anyone who seeks to be honest: Not even for a day, not even in the safest technical occupations can he avoid even a single one of the listed choices — to be made in favor of either truth or lies, in favor of spiritual independence or spiritual servility.
Maddy Kearns knows what it means to live not by lies. Maddy has been standing up to the onrushing Zeitgeist since 2019, when in a special-report cover story for the magazine, “The Tragedy of the ‘Trans’ Child,” she told the truth about so-called gender-affirming treatment of kids suffering from gender dysphoria.
In the three years since, Maddy has told the truth, always, whether it be in her coverage of Lia Thomas’s controversial swimming national championship, the reality and tragedy of family breakdown, or that women should “bring back the slap” against predator pigs like Andrew Cuomo and Harvey Weinstein.
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