12.00pm US EST, June 2, 2025
45-minute Virtual Session
Join International Intrigue and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum for a candid chat on her latest book, ‘Autocracy Inc.’. We will dive into the strategies and tactics of modern autocrats, their interconnected networks for spreading disinformation, and the global fight for democracies to push back against this tide.
Bio
Anne Applebaum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, historian, and journalist renowned for her work on authoritarianism, disinformation, and Eastern European history. She studied at Yale, the London School of Economics, and Oxford before reporting on the fall of communism in Warsaw for The Economist. Her books, including Gulag: A History, Iron Curtain, and Autocracy, Inc., explore the mechanics of totalitarian regimes and their modern successors. A staff writer for The Atlantic and senior fellow at Johns Hopkins’ SNF Agora Institute, she is married to Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, and splits her time between Poland, London, and Washington, D.C.