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Defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism in the U.S. and around the world.

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President, Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism. Founder and editor of The UnPopulist, a Substack devoted to defending liberalism from the rising tide of modern, populist authoritarianism.

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