In the midst of an ongoing collapse of ethical, moral and legal constraints on dangerously unhinged totalitarian power, we are indebted to a longtime DP correspondent for reminding us of Vaclav Havel’s Summer Meditations, dating from 1992.
Two excerpts below:


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Amidst the riptides of the present moment, a sentence worth repeating:
Only one battle can surely be lost: the one we give up.
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