Several well-known bloggers have linked this Matt Welch piece on Vaclev Havel. I don't care, because everyone should link it. In light of what's happened to Sina Motallebi, and to what we discovered when we opened the prisons in Iraq, it's as timely as ever.

There's a numbing, deathly darkness, a willful and stubborn ignorance infecting the souls of too many people today in the West. Havel shines a light on it, and calls it what it is.