Finding Context for Solzhenitsyn’s Message

“What link can we find to a figure like Solzhenitsyn today? The left compares America’s holding of enemy detainees at Guantanamo and elsewhere to the Gulag…” John McCain, also a victim of internment, might disagree. According to one editorial, he “clearly comprehends the impact of Solzhenitsyn’s writings, of the power of words, of art, and of truth.”