The Front List: Anne Applebaum & Edward Wong

It’s hard to overstate the extent to which the Trump administration has disrupted the past 70 years’ world order. Journalists Anne Applebaum (The Atlantic columnist and author of the award-winning Twilight of Democracy, and Autocracy Inc) and Edward Wong (Diplomatic Correspondent for the New York Times and author of At the Edge of Empire) are here to report on the seismic shifts in the rules of engagement, and whether democracy can ever truly be safeguarded. Chaired by investigative journalist James West, executive editor of award-winning magazine, Mother Jones.

Supported by the Turtleton Charitable Trust.

Categories: Non-fiction, Politics & Society

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The Front List

The Front List series returns for the second year at McEwan Hall, in partnership with Underbelly, to present an expanded series of exciting events, representing the breadth of the Book Festival’s offering, with a host of star studded authors…

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