December 2011
3 posts
“The point, he insisted, was not to argue with those in power. It was not even...”
– Tony Judt on Vaclav Havel — from Postwar: a history of Europe since 1945
“Vaclav Havel, then working as a marginal playwright and poet in a society and...”
– Christopher Hitchens — excerpt from Letters to a Young Contrarian
Read the whole excerpt (if you don’t have time for the whole book). 