Masha Gessen
The Anatomy Of Autocracy: Masha Gessen
1/28/21 by NPR
Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/118364543
Episode: https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510333/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/throughline/2021/01/20210128_throughline_final_mix_insurrection__masha_gessen__wads_lw012721_with_gilkey.mp3?awCollectionId=510333&awEpisodeId=960766489&orgId=1&topicId=1136&d=2749&p=510333&story=960766489&t=podcast&e=960766489&size=43886748&ft=pod&f=510333
Russian-born journalist Masha Gessen talks to us about how the rule of the people becomes the rule of the one, the role of the media, and what we can learn about the building blocks of autocracy from the work of philosopher and writer Hannah Arendt, and what history tells us are the ways to dismantle it.
