Overlooked amid the Greenland uproar in Davos came an extraordinary statement from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Not only did the leader of America’s northern neighbor cozy up to Com ...

The lie of communism for Havel was that you had to pretend it was helping you while it was harming you; that it was giving ...

PRAGUE — Czechs are bidding an emotional farewell to Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who led their peaceful 1989 revolution that brought to an end decades of Communist rule. Havel's wife Dagmar ...

Carney made China our new "strategic partner. " Havel detested dictatorships and believed that governments should respect ...

When he spoke at Davos this week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney referenced a 1978 essay by Vaclav Havel, written when ...

In an era when moral clarity in foreign policy seems increasingly difficult to come by, we have an opportunity this week to recognize the efforts of a man – and his nation – that stood clearly and ...

Reactions to the death of Vaclav Havel, who led Czechoslovakia's 1989 anti-communist "Velvet Revolution": "A great fighter for the freedom of nations and for democracy has died . . . His outstanding ...

Vaclav Havel, the Czech writer and dissident whose eloquent dissections of Communist rule helped to destroy it in revolutions that brought down the Berlin Wall and swept Havel himself into power, died ...

The following essay is based on the laudatio given by Jacques Rupnik in October 2009 on the occasion of the awarding to Václav Havel of an honorary doctorate from Sciences Po. The text, which ...

PRAGUE — Czechs and world leaders paid emotional tribute to Vaclav Havel on Friday at a pomp-filled funeral, ending a week of public grief and nostalgia over the death of the dissident playwright who ...

While in prison in 1981, he befriended the dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Later, he became a conservative voice in Rome. By Clay Risen His longtime career in the Foreign Service ...

Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for A Private View, Distinguished Plays (Obie Awards) for The Increased Difficulty of Concentration and Best Foreign Play (Obie Awards) for The Memorandum. What ...