The more things change, the more they stay the same.
That old saw kept popping to mind when I was reading “We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn” (University of Notre Dame Press, 2025, 228 pages). Edited by his son, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, the book includes his Nobel address and the 1978 Harvard speech as well as other speeches he delivered here in the West and in the former Soviet Union.
