In a significant move reflecting deepening divisions over responses to Russia’s actions in Ukraine, the Czech Republic has chosen to suspend intergovernmental consultations with Slovakia. The decision is a direct response to Slovakia’s stance on Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, particularly highlighting concerns over a recent meeting between Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanár and... 

As everyone in the Czech Republic is now aware, I was ultimately prevented from giving this lecture. Perhaps even more important to the rights of the Czech people, the faculty and students were denied their right to hear it. Here is the actual text of my scheduled lecture. You may be the judge of whether I should have had the legal right to deliver it and whether the university students and faculty...