Anne Applebaum

And this is a book that, you know, felt like the first time I read it, I don't know, 20 years ago, like a piece of ancient history describing these, you know, But these are now these kinds of moral choices will now come back for American civil servants.

And this is a book that, you know, felt like the first time I read it, I don't know, 20 years ago, like a piece of ancient history describing these, you know, But these are now these kinds of moral choices will now come back for American civil servants.

You know, as you say, you stay in and you try to make sure people aren't harmed and therefore be somehow tarnished by the fact that you've helped the new regime or you quit in a principled way and just get out or you just conform.

You know, as you say, you stay in and you try to make sure people aren't harmed and therefore be somehow tarnished by the fact that you've helped the new regime or you quit in a principled way and just get out or you just conform.

You know, as you say, you stay in and you try to make sure people aren't harmed and therefore be somehow tarnished by the fact that you've helped the new regime or you quit in a principled way and just get out or you just conform.

I agree. Yeah. I agree. No, no, it's much more complicated. And that's why, actually, I don't think there's a formula I can give you. You know, should you stay or should you go or should you collaborate? Because it will depend on what you see happening and whether you can be useful and stop it or whether, you know, your presence is justifying something that is illegal.

I agree. Yeah. I agree. No, no, it's much more complicated. And that's why, actually, I don't think there's a formula I can give you. You know, should you stay or should you go or should you collaborate? Because it will depend on what you see happening and whether you can be useful and stop it or whether, you know, your presence is justifying something that is illegal.

I agree. Yeah. I agree. No, no, it's much more complicated. And that's why, actually, I don't think there's a formula I can give you. You know, should you stay or should you go or should you collaborate? Because it will depend on what you see happening and whether you can be useful and stop it or whether, you know, your presence is justifying something that is illegal.

And that's, you know, hard to say.

And that's, you know, hard to say.

And that's, you know, hard to say.

A piece of the authoritarian playbook is absolutely control of the media and control of the public conversation, establishing the terms of debate, arguing that Elon Musk is bravely doing the work of trimming the federal budget, and that he's a brilliant mind finally focused on government waste, changing the narrative about what he's doing.

A piece of the authoritarian playbook is absolutely control of the media and control of the public conversation, establishing the terms of debate, arguing that Elon Musk is bravely doing the work of trimming the federal budget, and that he's a brilliant mind finally focused on government waste, changing the narrative about what he's doing.

A piece of the authoritarian playbook is absolutely control of the media and control of the public conversation, establishing the terms of debate, arguing that Elon Musk is bravely doing the work of trimming the federal budget, and that he's a brilliant mind finally focused on government waste, changing the narrative about what he's doing.

I mean, there's an extra element of it as well, which is the way in which And you saw the original version of this was in the old Twitter files debate, which is also another thing that Musk does, and he's been doing it in the last couple of days. And it's another thing I'm worried about is taking information that he finds selectively and spinning it into justification for what he does.

I mean, there's an extra element of it as well, which is the way in which And you saw the original version of this was in the old Twitter files debate, which is also another thing that Musk does, and he's been doing it in the last couple of days. And it's another thing I'm worried about is taking information that he finds selectively and spinning it into justification for what he does.

I mean, there's an extra element of it as well, which is the way in which And you saw the original version of this was in the old Twitter files debate, which is also another thing that Musk does, and he's been doing it in the last couple of days. And it's another thing I'm worried about is taking information that he finds selectively and spinning it into justification for what he does.

And you saw this. I still don't know the veracity of this or exactly what it was, but they found some... chunk of money that seemed to be going to the Lutheran Church. And it turns out that the Lutheran Church runs old people's homes in South Dakota and other places.

And you saw this. I still don't know the veracity of this or exactly what it was, but they found some... chunk of money that seemed to be going to the Lutheran Church. And it turns out that the Lutheran Church runs old people's homes in South Dakota and other places.

And you saw this. I still don't know the veracity of this or exactly what it was, but they found some... chunk of money that seemed to be going to the Lutheran Church. And it turns out that the Lutheran Church runs old people's homes in South Dakota and other places.