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Review: Barack Obama’s memoir is a masterful lament over the fragility of hope

Havel in the MediaReview: Barack Obama’s memoir is a masterful lament over the fragility of hopeVHLFNovember 27, 2020Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / www.post-gazette.com / By Eli Stokols / Reading Barack Obama’s deeply introspective and at times elegiac new presidential memoir, I thought often about something the writer James Baldwin said in 1970, two years removed from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and despairing about America from …Read more...

This is what the dismantling of a democracy looks like

Havel in the MediaThis is what the dismantling of a democracy looks likeVHLFNovember 16, 2020Source: Quartz / https://qz.com / By Mary Hui / It happens in fits and starts, bursts of draconian crackdowns punctuated by periods of deceptive calm. But the direction is clear: The democratic scaffolding of Hong Kong’s civil society is being taken apart at startling speed. Make no mistake: Hong Kong …Read more...

VHLF & BBLA Annual Gala Celebrating Cultural Diplomacy

Havel ConversationsVHLF & BBLA Annual Gala Celebrating Cultural DiplomacyVHLFNovember 6, 2020Thursday, September 24, 2020 Vaclav Havel Library Foundation & Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association Annual Gala Celebrating Cultural Diplomacy and Honoring Ambassador William Luers and Mrs. Wendy Luers and presenting the fifth annual Disturbing the Peace Award to a Courageous Writer at Risk took place online. Despite the fact that …Read more...

David Kelley: An alternative form of renewable energy

Havel in the MediaDavid Kelley: An alternative form of renewable energyVHLFOctober 26, 2020Source: VTDigger / https://vtdigger.org / By David Kelley / In his inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy reminded us that our future depended more on our citizenship than his leadership. He challenged us each to ask what we could do for our country. I got a crash course in the …Read more...

3-Minute Civics: Democracy is an action word

Havel in the Media3-Minute Civics: Democracy is an action wordVHLFOctober 26, 2020Source: Concord Monitor / www.concordmonitor.com / By Tracy Hahn – Burkett / We here in America are not accustomed to thinking about our democracy. It’s been here since before everyone now alive was born, and our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents before us. It’s like birds and sunsets and baseball …Read more...

INTERVIEW: “A shame for Europe”

Havel in the MediaINTERVIEW: “A shame for Europe”VHLFOctober 25, 2020Source: New Europe / www.neweurope.eu / By Otmar Lahodynky / Czech politician Karel Schwarzenberg spoke to New Europe about the European Union’s inadequate foreign policy, the lack of solidarity in its migration policy and new constitutional conditions for EU funding. Schwarzenberg was Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic from 2007 …Read more...

What one small state has revealed of the big state’s hidden hand

Havel in the MediaWhat one small state has revealed of the big state’s hidden handVHLFOctober 25, 2020Source: Australian Strategic Policy Institute / www.aspistrategist.org.au / By Gordon Weiss / ‘When small men begin to cast big shadows’, wrote the Chinese intellectual Lin Yutang, ‘it means the sun is about to set.’ It is a dictum that, like many, functions neatly in reverse. When small countries stand up …Read more...

Contest for the best mini drama

AwardsContest for the best mini dramaVHLFOctober 6, 2020Cole Kordus, 2020 graduate of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, is the first U.S. winner of the annual contest for best mini-drama to participate in Encounter, an International Festival of Theater Schools in Brno, Czech Republic The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation is proud to extend our contest …Read more...

Column: Our literary politicians

Havel in the MediaColumn: Our literary politiciansVHLFOctober 6, 2020Source: Dawn / www.dawn.com / By Harris Khalique / Everywhere, there are some politicians who take to writing at an opportune time in their careers. They write on current affairs, begin to publish issue-based articles and columns, and a few of them may also write their political memoirs. In developing …Read more...

Standing Up for Freedom . . .

Havel in the MediaStanding Up for Freedom . . .VHLFSeptember 11, 2020Source: National Review / www.nationalreview.com / By Jay Nordlinger / . . . and against Beijing and the Kremlin. Meet the mayor of Prague. Vaclav Havel was the leading dissident in Communist Czechoslovakia, and the first president after the Fall of the Wall. All over the world, he became a …Read more...

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