Czech Republic

Václav Havel, Czech playwright who helped defeat communism, is dead

Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 6:44 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

[F]rankly, when I began commenting on the deaths of famous people four years ago, the last thing I wanted was to contribute to our culture’s perverse fascination with celebrities. In fact, I only began this feature as a lark to propagate the superstition that the deaths of famous people come in threes. (Post mortem on… Read more.

Obama scraps Bush’s European missile defense plan

Friday, September 18, 2009 at 5:32 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

By scrapping former President George W. Bush’s European missile defense plan yesterday, President Obama finally gave his liberal supporters a foreign policy initiative they can cheer about. After all, to date, his initiatives have been distinguished by the fact that he was adopting all of Bush’s. Here, for example, is how I commented on their… Read more.