Twilight of Democracy

Anne Applebaum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist. Her books include Gulag: A History, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 and, most recently, Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Democracy and the Parting of Friends. She is a columnist for The Atlantic and a senior fellow of the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

Please note that Anne Applebaum will join us in the Garden via live streaming from Washington DC, USA.

Sally Warhaft is a Melbourne broadcaster, anthropologist and writer. She is the host of The Fifth Estate, the Wheeler Centre’s live series focusing on journalism, politics, media, and international relations, and The Leap Year, a Wheeler Centre podcast about Australians' lives in the fog of the Covid-19 pandemic. She is a former editor of The Monthly and the author of the bestselling book Well May We Say: The Speeches that Made Australia.