(This post offers the first student analysis of Twilight of Democracy. Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field.)   While reading through Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, you hear of all the elbow-rubbing Applebaum has done with the political elite and academics – some of whom she […]

(This post is the first of a set on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy.  Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field.) Our capstone students engaged this latest text, focused on the trajectory of democracy around the world and at home, with rich and nuanced thought, conversation and writing.  Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Anne […]