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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Friday that the GOP will "follow Donald Trump and those conspiracy theories, no matter what."

Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Pulitzer Prize winning historian. In her recent book she explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. (Special to the Daily) From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. On Thursday at 6 p.m. Vail Symposium will facilitate a discussion between author Anne Applebaum and Larry Diamond to delve into the lure of authoritarianism. “Anne Appleba...

BOOK REVIEW: Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will. Anne Applebaum Published in the United States by Doubleday, New York “The emotional appeal of a conspiracy theory is in its simplicity. It explains away complex phenomena, accounts for chance and accidents, offers the believer the satisfying sense of having special, privileg...

But I don’t want to revisit the 80s. Sure, it’d be great to have the pre-dad body and the energy and drive that came with it but I don’t miss the mullet, the thick glasses and being – to quote a much newer song – young, dumb and broke. That’s what the Russian writer Svetlana Boym calls reflective nostalgia – savouring the sweetness of days gone by but not actually wanting to go back there.  Nostalgia isn’t just reflective, Boym notes. Restorative nostalgia is the longing for...

Fox News, OANN and Newsmax need to be held to account for spreading The Big Lie about the 2020 election, and for the networks ongoing role in spreading outright lies as truth. For America to heal, there must be oversight of media that violate minimal standards of impartiality and accuracy. Fox News, Newsmax and OANN need to be held to account for spreading The Big Lie about the 2020 election and for their ongoing role in spreading outright lies as truth. For America to heal, there must be medi...

Anne Applebaum’s new book, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, opens two decades ago with a rollicking New Year’s Eve party that she and her husband threw at their renovated country estate in Poland to celebrate the triumphant end of the 20th century. Applebaum is a historian of Eastern Europe under communism, the author of Red Famine and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Gulag: A History; her husband, Radosław Sikorski, is a center-right politician who at various ...

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McCourtney Institute spring events to explore the future of American democracy Donna Shalala, Anne Applebaum and Danielle Allen, left to right, will present lectures in the coming weeks as part of the McCourtney Institute for Democracys virtual events series. Visit democracy.psu.edu/virtual-events for more information and to register. Image: Penn State McCourtney Institute spring events to explore the future of American democracy January 08, 2021 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Following a tumultuous ...

Liesl Schillinger on The Magnet and The Megaphone January 7, 2021 Yesterday, on January 6th, one of the darkest days in this country’s history as a democratic nation, the US Capitol was overrun by a pro-Trump mob that had been incited to invade the premises by the defeated president at a rally earlier in the day. His seditious intention was for his supporters to disrupt the confirmation of the 2020 Electoral College vote—which traditionally is an undramatic, pro forma step in the orderly tr...

It’s also democracy. Hours after the pro-Trump mob was peacefully pushed out, the duly-elected politicians returned to conducting the people’s work they were doing before they were rudely interrupted. And in the wee hours of the night, ending a very long day, they ratified the people’s will by confirming Joe Biden as the next president of the United States. Like many, I was horrified watching what unfolded Wednesday in Washington. It made me sad, angry and worried about the fate of dem...