Plug in a break point, daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth,

but the Colson Center, I'm John Stung Street.

Back in 1978, at the Harvard University commencement, America heard from a prophetic voice.

As comments that day have not only proven to be true, they are more relevant today than ever,

and therefore they're worth revisiting. So there are a few college commencement speakers today

that dared to directly challenge broadly accepted ideas considered politically correct,

or the secularism that undergirds those ideas. On June 8, 1978, renowned Soviet dissident

Alexander Sultzenitz and did boldly, and without apology, his stunning address not only made

those assembled there feel uncomfortable, it provoked many of them to actually boo him.

Now why would an audience boo a moral giant like Alexander Sultzenitz, and one who'd

stare down a brutal communist dictatorship's gulox and won the Nobel Prize in literature?

Those who booed had expected him to celebrate the West and to direct all of his condemnations

only at communism, but instead he condemned both communism and the West. In the process,

Sultzenitz had the courage to speak of something that was reviled at the time by elites on both sides

of the Atlantic. Truth. Quote, truth alludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on

its pursuit, but even while it alludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to

many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant. It is almost invariably bitter.

In quote, then in a classic analysis of the prevailing worldview of America, Sultzenitz

said that the West had exchange belief in unchanging truth for a relentless legalism.

And the most tragic and significant result he said was the absence of civil courage. He then

pointed to three specific lines of evidence for this claim. First, Sultzenitz said,

destructive and irresponsible freedom had been granted boundless space. How a culture understands

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