Harvard didn't see this coming.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

Forty years ago, Soviet dissident and literary giant Alexander Sultonetson delivered a thunderbolt of a commencement address at Harvard University.

Survivor of the Soviet gulog, a fierce opponent of communism, Sultaninson stunned his elite audience as he took aim at the disastrous social

and worldview trends happening in the West. He bemoaned that Western societies had given

destructive and irresponsible freedom boundless space, by which he meant license, what Chuck

Colson called, freedom without virtue. And then he went after the Western appetite for

decadent art. Finally, he argued, no healthy society or culture lacks great statesmen.

Sultaninson was prophetic, but sad to say, the West has largely ignored his voice.

Irresponsible freedom, check.

Deccanance, check.

Now go through your mental checklist and see how many great statesmen or stateswomen you can name these days.

Come to breakpoint.org for more on Sultanate's and stunning address, including

a breakpoint commentary. I'm John Stone Street.