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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).
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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.
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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.
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Press Freedom for Freedom's Adversaries?
American media outlets are offering a bullhorn to regimes that repress democracy and press freedom at home.
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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.
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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?
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Toxic Times
In The Shattering, Kevin Boyle aims to lay out a straightforward narrative of the chaotic Sixties. He leaves key questions unanswered.