Like wealth, or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Italians have famously low levels of trust in their government, and a tradition of medical hoaxes. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
In Belarus, the government is a kind of presidential monarchy with no checks, no balances, and no rule of law. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Independent judges have always frustrated governments that don't see why unelected arbiters of the law should stand in their way. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
There is nothing new about the sudden enthusiasm for aggressive government intervention during a health crisis. Throughout history, pandemics have led to… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Politics in Slovakia had long been a battle between egotistical men. Caputova sought to be the anti-ego alternative. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Americans, as a rule, rarely compare themselves with other countries, so convinced are we that our system is superior, that our politicians… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Democracy in some ways is a very illogical political system. When you win an election, you have to preserve the institutions that… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
As a nation, we are not good at long-term planning, and no wonder: Our political system insists that every president be allowed… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Quite a lot has been written, including by me, about the effect of social media on politics, and in particular the way… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
What links Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Andrej Babis, Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Marine Le Pen is one simple character trait: hypocrisy. These politicians… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
We now expect Google, Facebook, Twitter and other companies to police the Internet for dangerous and illegal material - violent, terrorist, criminal… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The so-called cancel culture on the Internet, the extremism that sometimes flares up on university campuses and newsrooms, and the exaggerated claims… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Globalization has genuinely drained power away from national politicians and people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
To describe Russian politics as "managed democracy" - and that's sometimes hard for outsiders to understand, because a lot of the forms… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
We can't continue assuming that politics is something which is decided elsewhere by distant leaders in a distant capital. Protest is insufficient… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“This “success” had a political price, in Hungary as everywhere else. In practice, nationalization had very little effect on the daily lives… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“One might say that, until now, the social, cultural, and political framework for knowledge of the Gulag has not been in place.… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Birtherism surely increased Americans' distrust of politics, though in ways that are hard to pin down. By contrast, when anti-vaxxers persuade parents… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Quite a lot has been written, including by me, about the effect of social media on politics, and in particular the way in which… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
After Trump became president, it was really too late to investigate his dodgy investments in Azerbaijan or his links to Russian money laundering. Those… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
If Reagan and John Paul II were linked by anything, it was a grand, ambitious, and generous idea of Western political civilization, one in… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this strand disappeared,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression and corruption. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
One knows, of course, that Donald Trump behaves differently from the leaders of other countries, especially the leaders of other Western democracies. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
As a nation, we are not good at long-term planning, and no wonder: Our political system insists that every president be allowed to appoint… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Amazingly, quite a few people, even some American conservatives, are taken in by Russian tactics. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Like wealth, or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Unlike most European countries, the police in the US are decentralized; even the FBI has regional offices. Amending the constitution is a long and… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The hard truth is that Trump was not exceptional. He was just another amoral Western businessman, one of many whom the ex-KGB elite have… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Politics in Slovakia had long been a battle between egotistical men. Caputova sought to be the anti-ego alternative. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
