Category: Bibliography
Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America!
Valued Users of America: “We are adding a lot of features no one asked for that will make your experience worse and also cost a lot of money!” @petridishes writes on the end of America’s free-trial period. “Want rule of law? That’s premium.”
***** The Media Is Splitting in Two
****** Will The Washington Post Embrace the AI Slush Pile? Rj
the-authoritarian-checklist?
The end of the world as we know it from the home front.
anneapplebaum/p/autocracy-inc new book forward
****** NYTimes: America and China Have Placed Their Wagers. Now We Wait.
How the Ivy League Broke America
America’s meritocracy is broken, @nytdavidbrooks writes. Here’s how to fix it:
**** Anne Applebaum on the Trump revolution
Anne Applebaum on the Trump revolution
https://youtu.be/AyUgoHZC7_M?si=_f4byz_Nk6QOOhNg
122,408 views Aug 27, 2025
Pulitzer-winning historian Anne Applebaum is releasing a paperback edition of her book Autocracy Inc., on the autocrats who are eroding democratic freedoms around the world. Her timing is impeccable: she says Donald Trump is moving the United States closer to autocracy. In this week’s episode she discusses all the ways Trump is undermining democratic norms, and explains why his attempts to stop the Ukraine war are coming up short.