The Wall Street Journal recently did a fascinating profile of former Harvard professor Gene Sharp, whose works on non-violent resistance (notably, “The Anti-Coup” and “From Dictatorship to Democracy”) have been translated into 28 languages, used by opposition activists across the world, and used in democracy movements to topple governments in Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan. In 1992, the “quiet” and “mysterious” Sharp even ”slipped into Burma” to teach seminars to the guerrillas.

Now there’s a stunning scholarly legacy. Cheers for Professor Sharp!