Around the world, authoritarianism is on the rise, not through invasions or coups, but through the slow erosion of institutions, elections, and truth itself. It's a pattern that has repeated across countries and decades, and one that's now playing out closer to home than many would like to admit.
Anne Applebaum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and staff writer at The Atlantic, and the author of Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, Autocracy, Inc., and Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps. [Among others.] She has spent her career studying how democracies fall apart, and what it takes to stop them. …
