P&P Live!: Masha Gessen - Surviving Autocracy — in conversation with Dahlia Lithwick

In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the ominous significance of Donald Trump’s speech and behavior, unprecedented in a national candidate. Within 48 hours of his victory, the essay “Autocracy: Rules for Survival” had gone viral, and Gessen’s coverage of his norm-smashing presidency became essential reading for a citizenry struggling to wrap their heads around the unimaginable. Her incisive new book, Surviving Autocracy, provides an indispensable overview of the calamitous trajectory of the past few years. 

Gessen will be in conversation with Dahlia Lithwick, who writes about the courts and the law for Slate and the host of the podcast Amicus.