What is happening to the democratic project, as the democracies established in the post-communist 1990s and elsewhere are under siege? What are the implications of the rise of illiberalism and authoritarianism for the future of democracy? Anne Applebaum, Washington Post columnist and Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, stopped by The Graduate Center’s Thought Project to discuss. Listen here.
Applebaum is currently professor of practice at the London School of Economics’ Institute of Global Affairs where she runs Arena, a program on disinformation and 21st-century propaganda. A former member of The Washington Post editorial board, she has also worked as the foreign and deputy editor of The Spectator magazine in London, as the political editor of the Evening Standard, and as a columnist at Slate and at several British newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph. From 1988 to 1991, she covered the collapse of communism as the Warsaw correspondent of the Economist magazine and the Independent newspaper. Her latest book, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, was published in October 2017.