Leon Craig and Heidi Studer she tells me (literally, on a group zoom call and she's on it)

Thanks Jeff, I hear you. Still, Snyder thinks the rulers are just animated by the goods of tyranny: power, money, sex, etc. I reviewed his book On Freedom in TLS on this point.

Applebaum strikes me as the anti-mole. Lived in Eastern Europe, but zero sympathy or even curiosity of these movements.

Maybe... but liberalism is kind of handcuffed, no, in that it wants to abstain on prescribing anything about the good life? Its opponents really don't have that scruple!

my sense is that it would be democratic, in the sense of majoritarian. but definitely not liberal or liberal democratic.

Last response on this one, sorry: she's actually going to do White Lotus and the movie Triangle of Sadness. The latter is pure Rousseau (even got a state of nature). I bet you'd "enjoy" it (in the manner of white lotus).

hahaha, I've read all three. Yours is best.

hahah, my daughter can't believe you replied! You made her day.

Also, the same post on X did really well.