Introduction

[Since I wrote this, in 2018, our slide toward totalitarianism has not only accelerated, but become worse than that which Havel faced. Perhaps, though, as Lenin said, the worse, the better.]

Václav Havel's famous essay, born of a specific time and place, resonates decades later in our own proto-totalitarian society. What should be done? Havel tells us.

The written version of this review can be found here.

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