Anne Applebaum and Jason Stanley
b'Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic, and a Senior Fellow of the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of three critically acclaimed and award-winning histories of the Soviet Union: \\u201cRed Famine, Iron Curtain, and Gulag\\u201d - winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Applebaum\\u2019s \\u201cTwilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism\\u201d raises an alarm about antidemocratic trends in the West and explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. \\n\\n\\n\\nJason Stanley is a best-selling author of five books, including \\u201cHow Propaganda Works,\\u201d winner of the Prose Award in Philosophy from the Association of American Publishers, and \\u201cHow Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.\\u201d Stanley serves on the Advisory Board of the Prison Policy Initiative and writes frequently about propaganda, free speech, mass incarceration, democracy, and authoritarianism for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Boston Review.'