COMMENTARY: In both the Polish and American cases, where is the Church creating the space in which unity might be recomposed, ...

Michnik, a leading intellectual of the Cold War era and longtime critic of Russian domination of Eastern Europe, is now, at age 75, the editor in chief of the liberal Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.

Polish journalist and intellectual Adam Michnik has been honored with the Gratias Agit Award by the Czech foreign ministry ...

Michnik was a central figure in Poland’s struggle against communist rule, said Michael Kennedy, professor of sociology and international studies, who introduced the lecture. While spending six years ...

Adam Michnik: It’s very difficult to admit defeat when you are convinced that you will be in power until the end of the world. The arrogance, megalomania, and lack of imagination of the PiS leadership ...

Adam Michnik: [laughs] I was using the nineteenth-century motto of a Polish émigré group in Paris called Hôtel Lambert, which sounds like, “Do what it takes, and what will be will be.” Of course, we ...

Adam Michnik. On the C-SPAN Networks: Adam Michnik is an Editor-in-Chief for the Gazeta Wyborcza with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1993 Forum as an Award ...

Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský awarded the Gratias Agit prize to Polish historian and dissident Adam Michnik at Prague’s Czernin Palace on Thursday. Michnik was recognised for his support of ...

“Your soul is as generous as the Ukrainian steppe,” Adam Michnik once wrote to General Czeslaw Kiszczak, one of the officials who, in 1981, had helped institute martial law in Poland.

Adam Michnik. Democracy; History; Rebels Who’d Had a Cause: Havel and Michnik After Communism What happens to revolutionaries after the revolution? If the revolution fails, ...