Masha Gessen
Journalist
1967-01-13
Books by Masha Gessen
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It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.
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It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.
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Scholars of totalitarianism talk about the importance of this constant movement, this forever war, this need to do battle on behalf of something that needs protection. In Russia, this something has been postulated as faith and traditional values.
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Many Americans have been looking for an explanation for Mr. Trump's apparent adoration of Mr. Putin. How can a powerful, wealthy American man hold affection for the tyrannical, corrupt leader of a hostile power?
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Hate has a great unifying potential.
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Putin is an uneducated, unintelligent, uncultured man who has no plan.
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Nobody knows what self-radicalized means, and that's one of the weird things about the way that we talk about terrorism. We talk about radicalization as though it were a thing, as though you could sort of track it and identify it, and that's not the case.
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