This Is the End of the Liberal World Order

Political scientists agree that we are now living in a multi-polar world. How we might have arrived at this new formation and whether the newly powerful actors on the global stage are inherently problematic, remain areas of much disagreement.

Someone who has a distinct perspective on this new world order is this week’s guest, Anne Applebaum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World.

She sat down with Aaron to discuss Putin’s rise to power, misinformation and whether Israel fits into this collection of states who share little but a desire to consolidate each other’s autocracy.