Mr. Luers used writers and artists to help shield the Czech writer and dissident Vaclav Havel from communist reprisals during ...

Jiří Pehe is one of Czechia’s best-known political scientists, regularly sharing his insights with domestic and international ...

William H. Luers, a summer Island resident across four decades, career diplomat, and former president of the Metropolitan ...

The third approach that has often succeeded is focusing on the power of one — an individual tragedy rather than a sea of ...

A man blocked her path; she tried to continue walking when five more men, police officers in civilian ... writers like Václav Havel and scholars like my father in Czechoslovakia slept badly ...

The funny thing is that there’s a playbook for overturning autocrats. It was written here in America, by a rumpled political scientist I knew named Gene Sharp. While little known in the United States ...

Other plays set to showcase at the festival include Czech classic play ‘The Protest’ by Vaclav Havel. The Protest is a sequel to Havel’s ‘The Audience’ which the JRT toured the Czech ...

While serving as ambassador to Czechoslovakia, he worked to shield the writer and dissident Vaclav Havel, who became the Czech Republic’s first president. What the release of the last U.S ...