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Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer is a national affairs correspondent at The Nation and the author of In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013) and Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays and Profiles (2014).

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Where Things Went Awry

The rise of illiberalism in the West flows directly from liberalism’s failures.

Jeet Heer

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Francis Fukuyama

Host of “Democracy IRL”

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Charles Lane

Host of "Times Like These with Charles Lane"

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Richard Aldous

Host of "Bookstack"

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Democratic Moldova

Francis Fukuyama
Democratic Moldova

Eleanor Herman and the Demonization of Women in Power

Richard Aldous
Eleanor Herman and the Demonization of Women in Power

Amanda Ripley on why we're avoiding the news

Charles Lane
Amanda Ripley on why we're avoiding the news

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September 28, 2022: John Avlon discusses his new book, "Lincoln and the Fight for Peace"

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