A Live Streamed Conversation with Dr. David P. Deavel, University of Saint Thomas

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1970) famously fought for the freedom of the Russian people trapped under the steel boot of the Soviet regime, which ruled by a combination of lies and brutality. Dr. David Deavel will argue that the biggest lie the Soviet rulers told themselves and the people was that the old limits of the natural law did not apply. The “good” and the “true” were what was good for the state. Needless to say, no “beautiful” can thrive in such a situation.

This lecture will probe Solzhenitsyn’s understanding of the importance of recognizing our creatureliness. We are not God; we stand under justice and we are bound by truth. Only when we recognize our limits as people and as nations and “live not by lies” will we find the good society that communist utopias can never even approach.    

Free and open to the public. Please register to receive log-in information at: https://forms.gle/9DCvFFmeqJmhsUVv6.

This event is hosted by Markets & Morality, cosponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Saint Benedict Institute, and generously supported by the Acton Institute.