The Danger of Campaigning for ‘Freedom’
When one party tries to claim the concept for itself, will the other party’s voters reflexively oppose it?
Peter Pomerantsev
Peter Pomerantsev is a fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and the author, most recently, of This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality.
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