American columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda turns to Václav Havel’s dissident essays from 1978, 'The Power of the Powerless', to learn how people can find a collective way back from democratic ruin
A great piece, Heidi, on a book I knew nothing about. Preaching to the choir is often disparaged but it does have the effect of bolstering our courage to keep pushing away at the fog of lies.
The similarities between the US and the USSR and today’s Russia increase by the day. When the autocrat starts attacking the judicial system and a top law firm grovels before him and betrays a top employee offering him as a sacrifice then you know things can only get worse.
Like Stalin and Putin, Trump never forgets the merest slight, criticism or “insult” and will have his revenge. The only difference is there haven’t been any show trials or executions yet.
A great piece, Heidi, on a book I knew nothing about. Preaching to the choir is often disparaged but it does have the effect of bolstering our courage to keep pushing away at the fog of lies.
Thank you, Richard!
The similarities between the US and the USSR and today’s Russia increase by the day. When the autocrat starts attacking the judicial system and a top law firm grovels before him and betrays a top employee offering him as a sacrifice then you know things can only get worse.
Like Stalin and Putin, Trump never forgets the merest slight, criticism or “insult” and will have his revenge. The only difference is there haven’t been any show trials or executions yet.
So right thx