Vaclav Havel

In November, Elizabeth May was twice denied the House’s consent to mark Remembrance Day. This afternoon she was apparently denied...

World leaders gather in Prague for the funeral of the former Czech president

Havel’s translator, Paul Wilson, on the statesman, the dissident, the artist

In the space of a few months in late 1989 and early 1990, two events occurred that made it seem anything evil in the world’s...

Vaclav Havel died today. Perhaps my friends at the National Post won’t mind if I reproduce the column I wrote for that paper’s...

I’ve posted this before somewhere, but for various reasons it feels appropriate to post it again. it’s from Vaclav Havel’s Summer...

Twenty- two Central and East European politicians of a certain (largely mid-90s) vintage, including eight former heads of state or...

Riot police at Freedom Square and Revolution Square. (UPDATE: reports of water cannon and tear gas.) The protesters have resisted...

One of this week’s subjects is inaugural addresses. From Havel we learn three things: The rest is here .