Econ Talk: Twilight of Democracy is about the seductive lure of authoritarianism. Author and journalist Paul Applebaum talks to Russ Roberts about his new book, The Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, A History. What changed when Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were faces of conservative movement? And how did it change after they left office in 1980s?
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.