The great anticommunist dissident Václav Havel passed away in December. Havel’s essay 1978 essay “The Power of the Powerless,“ circulated in in samizdat in his country and in Poland, had a powerful impact. In a new podcast conducted by the Manhattan Institute, Flagg Taylor, editor of the ISI title The Great Lie: Classic and Recent Appraisals of Ideology and Totalitarianism, discusses Havel’s life and career.

You can listen to the podcast here.