List – Books for the Current Moment
Books I've found useful for understanding the present assault on reality and democracy.
- Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Rule the World (Doubleday, 2024).
- Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (Norton, 2020).
- Deborah Cohen, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War (Random House, 2022).
- Brooke Gladstone, The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time (Workman Publishing, 2017).
- Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of Modern Russia (Faber & Faber, 2014).
- Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War against Reality (PublicAffairs, 2019).
- Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Tim Duggan Books, 2017).
- Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Tim Duggan Books, 2018).
Last updated: April 29, 2025