Just How Loud Does Money Talk?

“Everyone in the resistance knew of [Václav] Havel.” In Anna Porter’s The Ghosts of Europe: Central Europe’s Past and Uncertain Future, Havel plays the role of rock star. The former blacklisted-playwright-turned-national-leader is a star, of course: The poet turned president. The intellectual who will lead the people out of corruption; out of despair; out of a system that denies citizens control over their income, their homes, and their jobs; out of institutionalized abuse and into a new way of being. And he did. Kinda/sorta.