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[FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW] Ryszard Legutko fought for freedom in Poland as an underground editor in the anti-communist Solidarity movement. But after democracy was restored in Poland, he began seeing trends ...
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Is Trump Plotting to Be a Tyrant?
Commentary Here we go with the biggest rap against Donald Trump, namely that he is an authoritarian. The ...
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The Valorization of the Tyrants
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The Return to a Premodern State
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Commentary I’m sitting at the bar at a restaurant in the center of Mexico City, a country ranked ...
December 21, 2022
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Fauci’s Contribution to Tyranny in China
Commentary The grim news from China again puts lockdowns on trial. It seems simply incredible that the United ...
November 30, 2022
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The Quarantine of Healthy Populations
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October 14, 2022
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Freedom Itself Is Gravely in Peril
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August 10, 2022
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Dictatorship Chic
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July 27, 2022
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The US President Finally Gets COVID
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July 22, 2022
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Workers of the World Unite–Against Despotism
Commentary ‘Rebellion is always an evil. It is always an offence against the law of a nation. It ...
February 11, 2022
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Italy’s Covid Despotism Just Got Worse
Commentary The news from Italy has started to sound like good incipits for a dystopian fantasy novel or like a ...
January 31, 2022
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Equality in Servitude: From Citizen Competence to Therapeutic Despotism
Commentary A dozen or so years ago, I took temporary leave from Georgetown University and moved to Iraq ...
January 11, 2022
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Machiavellian Necessities and the Fragility of Liberty
Commentary In the introduction to their translation of Niccolò Machiavelli’s “Discourses on Livy,” Harvey Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov ...
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