If you’re looking to commemorate Václav Havel’s death you could do worse than read this piece by Anne Appelbaum on the famous Czech from THE WEEKLY STANDARD archives, “Rebel with a Cause: Vaclav Havel from dissident to president.” It’s a warts-and-all assessment, but Appelbaum notes that Havel’s flaws couldn’t begin to outweigh the import of some of his ideas:

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