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Diary Australia

Diary

17 October 2020

9:00 AM

17 October 2020

9:00 AM

Gulag survivor and author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn famously said that one of the biggest mistakes people make is assuming totalitarianism can’t happen in their country. That’s the motivation for New York Times best-selling author Rod Dreher’s new book, Live Not By Lies (Sentinel), which I’ve just read. Dreher reiterated his warning in an interview on Outsiders on a recent Sunday morning and stressed that Solzhenitsyn’s warning has taken on an urgency in the current frenzy of identity politics and cancel culture across the west.

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