What sort of person treats caring nurses so brutally?
Are our governments full of tyrants? Descendants of Draco?
How to Build a Twenty-first-Century Tyrant
by Adam Gopnik, May 16, 2022
Autocracies are resurgent, and today’s would-be strongmen are using a new set of tools.
“What is easy to miss in the work of generalizing analysis is just how oppressive daily life under the new dictators can be. Many people in Russia today, as in the Soviet Union before, struggle to c…
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