"I am much more afraid of the authoritarian right right now than I am of the authoritarian left," he says. "The nutty issues in academia are somehow equivalent to the destruction of institutions and the destruction of politics that are coming from the right" The author has written three books about the dangers of Soviet communism, including one on how Marxism led to mass death.
Journalist and author Anne Applebaum talks about her book, Twilight of Democracy, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Applebaum discusses the rise of populist and nationalist movements in Eastern Europe as well as in the West, and the appeal of these movements even when they begin to erode or destroy democracy.