08-05-2020, 09:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-05-2020, 09:21 AM by David Horn.)
It's interesting that Anne Applebaum is a Republican, or was when she lived in the US. It's also interesting that she looks left to find autocrats, when all the autocrats rising now are on the right. Yes, there are autocrats that originated on the left: mostly Marxist in origin but God knows what they are today. To her credit, she sees the autocrats on the right, acknowledges them as such, and discusses them at length.
Poland is of special interest because her husband is a Polish politician. Here, she has personal knowledge of how this happens and why. That's the essence of the book, as far as I can tell. I have mine on order.
Poland is of special interest because her husband is a Polish politician. Here, she has personal knowledge of how this happens and why. That's the essence of the book, as far as I can tell. I have mine on order.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.