Over the last months I read Anne Applebaum’s ‘Twilight of democracy’. She is an American award winning historian on Soviet atrocities and was one of the first American journalists to raise the alarm about antidemocratic trends in the West. In this well written book she explains the attraction of nationalism and autocracy. Along the way […]
What liberals misunderstand about authoritarianism
The wonderful podcast from Ezra Klein with historian and journalist Anne Applebaum, ‘what liberals misunderstand about authoritarianism’ is actually about what liberals don’t and authoritarians do get about human nature. Or what we have forgotten and need to remember fast in order to stop the move towards autocracy in the democratic world. They discuss Hannah […]
The biggest little farm
A: Molly picks up a clump a dry, compacted, dead soil and throws it to the ground. It doesn’t break. B: John looses a patch of cover crops and scoops up two hand fulls of loose, crumbly, rich, living earth. These are two scenes of the movie The biggest little farm and contain its main […]
