Submitted by christian on Tue, 08/09/2016 - 13:02
Author: Michael Zantovsky is the Czech ambassador to the Court of St. James’s and the author of Havel: A Life.
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"A specter is haunting Europe. It has many names, and none of them fits. It is neither left nor right, and neither revolutionary nor reactionary, although it is a bit of all these things. It has many diverse and sometimes incongruous manifestations; it seems to spring from a single fountain of malaise and discontent.