...to the Gulag Archipelago (On Solzhenitsyn, Peterson, and the man who was not self-authored.) In 2018, Jordan Peterson wrote the foreword to the fiftieth-anniversary abridgment of The Gulag Archipelago. It was, by any accounting, a gift to the book. Hundreds of thousands of young men who would never have lifted three volumes of Soviet testimony bought the one-volume edition because his name stood at the front of it. Whatever else is said here, let that be said first, and meant: the largest...

Daniel Hoven Critical Essays March 22, 2026 Or - ‘What I learned from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’ We have all by now heard the familiar critique of that body of thought—and the world built therefrom—which history has at first affectionately, and of late sarcastically, christened The Enlightenment. We shall not here attempt a comprehensive definition of that period, but will assume the reader to be familiar with the relevant authors, from Voltaire to Newton, Bacon to Descartes, and Laplace to...

My life was forever changed one morning when I awoke to discover I did not know how to be...