Showing posts with label Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Show all posts

Monday, August 4, 2008

Spirits of Freedom

Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died at the age of 89. I remember reading, “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,” in college many years ago for a Russian Literature course I took. Like Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn knew hard labor and imprisonment in a state system that attempted to knead away all that was human in people; in a grand scheme to create a perfected society modeled by socialism.

Happy belated birthday to Milton Friedman; His birthday was on Friday, July 31st. Friedman passed away in 2006. He would have been 96.