Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest daily, and recipient of the 2009 Ion Ratiu Democracy Lecture Award, recently published an article in Der Spiegel, entitled "Will Year of Miracles be Squandered?"

The article, which centers on the idea that cynicism and the appeal of authoritarianism may threaten the achievements of 1989, is available from Der Spiegel's website.