FOR PERSPECTIVE

I commend "An Uncanny Era: Conversations Between Vaclav Havel and Adam Michnik." Yale. Edited by Elzbieta Matynia.

Not only do you get a sense of the resistance by the Central Europeans but both men talk about the rise of xenophobia,nationalism and anti-semiticism after the collapse of communism. Also they ponder the emergence of the extreme right including Le Pen.

Reading them, you would think we have been overtaken by the old ghosts of Europe. Rather than vice versa.