Anne Applebaum on Autocracy, Inc

We are at a moment of very, very high risk and I'm not sure that people really know that or understand it, or if they do, if they care.
Anne Applebaum

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Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian. Some of her books include Gulag: A History (amzn.to/3VrswvU), Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine (amzn.to/420Vt4g), and most recently Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (amzn.to/3VARybV). She recently gave the Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture titled "Autocracy, Inc."

Key Highlights
• Introduction - 0:42
• What is Autocracy, Inc - 3:47
• Democratic Response - 13:40
• Appeal of Authoritarianism - 26:51
• Thoughts on Poland - 32:26
Key Links

Watch Anne Applebaum's Lecture "Autocracy, Inc (youtube.com/live/ShMiOJdrtcM?feature=share)"

"The Autocrats are Winning (theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/the-a…)" in The Atlantic by Anne Applebaum

Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (amzn.to/3VARybV) by Anne Applebaum

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