Join Harry and Philip as they wade into a current debate about the global competition between autocracy and democracy. Is this really happening? Is it a decisive feature of democratic decline? Or are our problems mostly domestic?
We will be looking at three articles on the subject from Anne Applebaum in Atlantic Magazine, Max Fisher in The New York Times, and Damon Linker in The Week, which have sparked lively argument over the subject.
Further Reading:
- "The Bad Guys Are Winning," by Anne Applebaum in Atlantic Magazine.
- "U.S. Allies Drive Much of World’s Democratic Decline, Data Shows," by Max Fisher in The New York Times.
- "The outdated thinking confusing our talk about autocracy," by Damon Linker in The Week.
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