Anne Applebaum

A historian and journalist whose Pulitzer-winning work on Soviet history turned, in recent books, to the present drift of free societies. Twilight of Democracy examines why intellectuals and elites turn toward authoritarianism. Autocracy, Inc. documents how today's autocrats cooperate across borders as a network rather than isolated strongmen. She writes about how democracies decay from the inside and how dictatorships sustain one another from without.