Beyond Power and Will
Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, a universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make…
Havel: A Life
Havel: A Life. Michael Zantovsky. New York: Grove Press, 2014. I am grateful for the invitation to review Michael Zantovsky’s biography of Václav Havel, the playwright,…
The Collapse of Communism
Autopsy of an Evil Empire Let us be done with muddling explanations for the collapse of socialism and admit that it fell because the poetry of personal…