A Conversation with Anne Applebaum
Shared podcast by Sam Harris: Click on this link"Sam Harris and Anne Applebaum discuss the nature of modern autocracies and how democracies fail. They discuss the power of ideas, why autocracies seek to undermine democracies, cooperation among dictators, how Western financial experts and investors have enabled autocracies, how Putin came to power, the failure of engagement and investment to create political change, what's at stake in the war in Ukraine, Trump's charisma, the current symptoms of American democratic decline, the ideologues around Trump, the hollowing out of institutions, ..." More about the podcast here >
