Arch Puddington is senior emeritus scholar at Freedom House. He has written widely on global democracy, and is author of the Freedom House Special Report, Breaking Down Democracy: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians (2017).
Press Freedom for Freedom's Adversaries?
American media outlets are offering a bullhorn to regimes that repress democracy and press freedom at home.
Spin Dictators
These aren’t your great-grandparent’s dictators. Arch Puddington reviews a new account of modern authoritarianism by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman.
Orbán’s China Infatuation
Why is the nat cons’ champion of Christian values playing footsie with the long-term persecutors of religion in the Chinese Communist Party?
Toxic Times
In The Shattering, Kevin Boyle aims to lay out a straightforward narrative of the chaotic Sixties. He leaves key questions unanswered.
Remembering Bayard Rustin
We need him—and his commitment to nonviolence and integration—more than ever.
History: The Dictator’s Plaything
More and more Americans are catching on to what dictators have always understood—the importance of controlling the historical narrative.
Not Your Father’s Dictators
The decline in democracy is accelerating. We should be afraid, very afraid.
How Democracy Makes America Great
Two longtime servants of American democracy make the case for the greatness that lies within the system.
