Solzhenitsyn, hero, dead at 89

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- who was sent to the camps for referring to Stalin as the "man with the mustache" -- died on Sunday night.  (Here is the very thorough NYT obit.)  We here at MOJ talk, think, and write about "conscience"; Solzhenitsyn, in my view, really showed us how it's done.  His work and witness shamed all those who, from the comfort of western salons, romanticized the Soviet Union.  What the Times calls his "hectoring jeremiads" -- his speech at Harvard, for example, "A Warning to the West" -- were, it seems to me, also important.  R.I.P.