#274 - The Future of American Democracy

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Anne Applebaum, David Frum, Barton Gellman, and George Packer about the ongoing threat to American democracy posed by Republican misinformation and disinformation regarding the 2020 Presidential Election and the attack on the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Anne Applebaum</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a journalist, a prize-winning historian, a staff writer for </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Atlantic,</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where she co-leads a project on 21st century disinformation and co-teaches a course on democracy. Her books include </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3tNBQ17" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Red Famine: Stalin&rsquo;s War on Ukraine</span></em></a><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">;</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3GQUsRz" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956</span></em></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">; and </span><a href="https://amzn.to/356g4LL" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gulag: A History</span></em></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. Her most recent book is </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The New York Times</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> bestseller, </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3FQfHBG" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twilight of Democracy</span></em></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, an essay on democracy and authoritarianism. She was a </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Washington Post</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> columnist for fifteen years and a member of the editorial board; she has also been the d