Richard von Weizsäcker, Desmond Tutu, Karel Schwarzenberg
Havel Lives
PRAGUE – The death of Václav Havel, the former president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, has been marked with mourning around the …
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December 18 marks the first anniversary of the death of Václav Havel – playwright, dissident, president, giant of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This selection of commentaries, written exclusively for Project Syndicate, presents Havel in his own words.
Havel Lives
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Jiří Pehe
Václav Havel’s Life in Truth
PRAGUE – Long before Czechoslovakia’s communist regime collapsed in 1989, Václav Havel was one of the most remarkable figures in Czech histo…
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Jeffrey D. Sachs
The Power of Living in Truth
NEW YORK – The world’s greatest shortage is not of oil, clean water, or food, but of moral leadership. With a commitment to truth – scientif…
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Vaclav Havel
Politics And Theatre
In March 1997, while serving as President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel – who died on December 18th -- offered the following assessmen…
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Vaclav Havel
The Intellectual and Politics
Václav Havel, who died on December 18, was that rare intellectual who, rather than forcing his way into politics, had politics forced upon h…
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Vaclav Havel
Responsibility and the Spirit
PRAGUE - A paradox of our era is that, though humanity knows well the dangers it faces -- in overpopulation, environmental exhaustion, nucle…
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Vaclav Havel
Beyond Revolutionary Disillusion
PRAGUE - All revolutions, in the end, turn from euphoria to disillusion. In a revolutionary atmosphere of solidarity and self-sacrifice, peo…
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Vaclav Havel
Civil Society and Its New Enemies
PRAGUE - Genuine civil society is the truest fundamental of democracy, a truth often forgotten in the heat of election campaigns. Although C…
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Vaclav Havel
What Communism Still Teaches Us
PRAGUE - The fifteenth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on November 17, 1989, which brought an end to 41 years of communist dictatorship…
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Vaclav Havel
Who Threatens Our Identity?
PRAGUE: Identity and sovereignty are often discussed nowadays. But what do they actually mean? Both probably consist of feelings that a comm…
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