Live Not by Lies
by Rod Dreher
Dissidents from the Soviet bloc advise Westerners on resisting soft totalitarianism: families, small groups, memory, suffering. Faith-based and polemical.
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you want dissident wisdom applied to now, from a conservative Christian angle.
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you dislike the political framing; read Solzhenitsyn's essay instead.
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Three things you will actually use
- Small groups preserve truth.
- Memory is resistance.
- Refuse to repeat lies.
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Read the chapters with Václav Benda's family.
Our verdict
Dreher's dissidents.
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