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He did become something of a fractious old scold, as these remarks at Harvard 30 years ago show. He overestimated the moral decay of the West, and he unforgivably praised Putin for restoring Russia to her greatness. My own view is that Putin destroyed Russia's nascent democracy. But what a great writer! Sad news.