But attending a family wedding in Monaghan at the weekend, it struck me that the Child of Prague should be implicated in it too. The statue had been deployed in at least one local garden the night ...

Classic rock radio loves to play the same songs repeatedly until they're overplayed, so here are three songs that deserved ...

In 1968, the Czech people created a Prague Spring. The intent was to open up the airways to free speech to be able to practice their businesses according to open democratic rules. My husband ...

The life and work of Mario Vargas Llosa should remind conservatives about the importance of literature and culture.

The Prague Spring International Music Festival (May 12 to June 3) is one of the oldest and most prestigious of its kind in Europe, held annually since 1946. Expect a slew of concerts, operas ...

Set against the backdrop of the Prague Spring, this novel explores the tensions between freedom and commitment, politics and intimacy, weight and lightness. Introspective and poetic Merges ...

The 2025 edition of the Milwaukee Film Festival, which starts April 24, is smaller than past festivals by design, but not by aspiration.

Some novels centered on intimacy and relationships are genuinely worth your time—if you enjoy thoughtful storytelling. Others ...

The next year came the famous Prague Spring, when the secretary of the party attempted some liberalising reforms such as increasing the freedom of speech and abolishing censorship. These were ...

Her company was started by her stepfather, a violin maker who arrived in Ottawa as part of an exodus of émigrés from his native Czechoslovakia after the suppression of the Prague Spring in the ...

His drift from Marxism to classical liberalism was gradual, given a push by the Soviet Union’s crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 and completed by 1970 when Castro jailed his dissident author ...