Foreign Policy for Sale: A Conversation with Anne Applebaum (Ep. 495)
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Foreign Policy for Sale: A Conversation with Anne Applebaum (Ep. 495)
A Conversation with Anne Applebaum
Sam Harris
Oct 01, 2026
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Sam Harris speaks with Anne Applebaum about corruption, authoritarianism, and America’s retreat from the world. They discuss her
Atlantic
cover story
, the revolutionary project behind Trump’s second term, US support for Europe’s far right, the AfD, European rearmament, the state of the war in Ukraine, Russian propaganda, Witkoff and Kushner’s deal-making in Moscow, Venezuela as a union of kleptocracies, JD Vance’s nativism, the midterms, the challenge of depoliticizing institutions, and other topics.
Anne Applebaum
is a historian, journalist, and staff writer at
The Atlantic
. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the SNF Agora Institute. She was a columnist for
The Washington Post
for more than fifteen years. She is the author of five critically acclaimed books:
Twilight of Democracy
,
Red Famine
,
Iron Curtain
,
Between East and West
, and
Gulag
, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. She divides her time between Poland, where her husband is foreign minister, and Washington, D.C. Her latest book is
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
.
You can also subscribe to her Substack,
Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum
.
Website:
anneapplebaum.com
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Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and five-time New York Times best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the mind, society, current events, moral philosophy, religion, and rationality—with an overarching focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live.
Sam is also the creator of the Waking Up app. Combining Sam’s decades of mindfulness practice, profound wisdom from varied philosophical and contemplative traditions, and a commitment to a secular, scientific worldview, Waking Up is a resource for anyone interested in living a more examined, fulfilling life—and a new operating system for the mind.
Waking Up offers free subscriptions to anyone who can’t afford one, and donates a minimum of 10% of profits to the most effective charities around the world. To learn more, please go to WakingUp.com.
Sam Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
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