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Arch Puddington

Arch Puddington

Arch Puddington is 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).

Articles and Events

Netflix Takes on a Lion of Democracy
On Screen

Netflix Takes on a Lion of Democracy

Rustin is an admirable tribute to Bayard Rustin, but fails to capture the civil rights leader’s faithfulness to the liberal democratic tradition.

Arch Puddington
Orbán’s Tainted Democracy
Books

Orbán’s Tainted Democracy

A new book on Viktor Orbán reminds us that democracy can be peacefully overthrown by those who loudly assert their democratic bona fides.

Arch Puddington
Free Press, Regardless

Free Press, Regardless

Speaking directly to civilians under a dictatorship has never been harder–but Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is on it. Arch Puddington on how the network is reaching oppressed audiences today.

Arch Puddington
Press Freedom for Freedom's Adversaries?

Press Freedom for Freedom's Adversaries?

American media outlets are offering a bullhorn to regimes that repress democracy and press freedom at home.

Arch Puddington
Spin Dictators

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.

Arch Puddington
Orbán’s China Infatuation

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?

Arch Puddington
Toxic Times

Toxic Times

In The Shattering, Kevin Boyle aims to lay out a straightforward narrative of the chaotic Sixties. He leaves key questions unanswered.

Arch Puddington
Remembering Bayard Rustin

Remembering Bayard Rustin

We need him—and his commitment to nonviolence and integration—more than ever.

Arch Puddington