Bad Guys Winning or Good Guys Losing? | Bird's Eye
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Join Harry and Philip as they wade into a current debate about the global competition between autocracy and democracy. Is this really happening? Is it a decisive feature of democratic decline? Or are our problems mostly domestically rooted?
We will be looking at three articles on the subject from Anne Applebaum in Atlantic Magazine, Max Fisher in The New York Times, and Damon Linker in The Week, all linked below.
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Further Reading
- "The Bad Guys Are Winning," by Anne Applebaum in Atlantic Magazine.
- "U.S. Allies Drive Much of World’s Democratic Decline, Data Shows," by Max Fisher in The New York Times.
- "The outdated thinking confusing our talk about autocracy," by Damon Linker in The Week.
- Harry's Focus on the supposed democracy/autocracy struggle
- Harry's Insights on Tunisia
- Harry's Insight breaking down the war in Yemen
- Philip's Insight explaining the coup in Sudan
- Bird's Eye episode on Salazar
- Philip's Focus on China and the globalization of autocracy
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