Lists – Books for the Current Moment

Running list of titles 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).
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).

Last updated: January 25, 2025