Anne Applebaum
12/01/2025 - 11:24
I just need my heart,” he says. As he swims across the lake, seemingly unbothered by the cold, he continues: “I trust my immune... →
25/06/2024 - 12:10
Even in authoritarian states where surveillance is almost total, Applebaum reports, “the experience of tyranny and injustice can radicalize... →
20/11/2023 - 16:35
In the more than seven decades since they were written, these documents have frequently been ignored. The UN Genocide Convention did not... →
28/11/2022 - 13:05
They had met in the 1970s while working on a Soviet philosophy journal, and shared a hatred of the violent, arbitrary politics that had... →
17/04/2022 - 17:24
But Meri had also come to deliver a warning: Freedom in Estonia, and in Europe, could soon be under threat. Russian President Boris Yeltsin... →
23/12/2021 - 17:31
As readers of this classic American text know, the story begins after Hester gives birth to a child out of wedlock and refuses to name the... →
13/11/2018 - 13:11
The British prime minister, Theresa May, was not there. She chose to attend a ceremony in London, led by Prince Charles, in front of a... →
26/06/2018 - 12:17
Yet these different regimes did all have one thing in common. It was the obsession that one French scholar, writing of Cambodia, called the... →
12/11/2017 - 15:53
They were peripheral figures even in the Russian revolutionary underground. Trotksy had played a small role in the unsuccessful revolution... →
17/10/2017 - 16:22
Terry Gross: Let's talk briefly about the ways Russia has been interfering in Ukraine for the past couple of years. Maybe you can... →