Totalitarian Ideals and Not Living by Lies

Tags: Language, Philosophy, Progressivism, The Police State, World History

09/29/2023 Joakim Book

More than forty years ago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn urged his fellow Russians “not to live by lies.” In our politicized age, his words ring truer than ever.

Original Article: Totalitarian Ideals and Not Living by Lies

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