2025-10-27
32 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squad, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Mia Sorrenti.
For this episode,
we're rejoining for part two of our recent live event with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and political commentator Ann Applebaum.
Applebaum joined Gideon Rackman recently at the Royal Geographical Society in London for the final installment of our Age of the Strongman series,
Understanding Trump.
If you haven't heard part one, do just jump back an episode and get up to speed.
But now let's rejoin the conversation live at the Royal Geographical Society.
I think that one thing that has shocked people, probably on both sides of the Atlantic, though,
is you describe all these acts which are manifestly illegal, you know,
whether it's bulldozing bits of the White House or corruption.
And America's meant to be a country of laws.
It's full of lawyers.
It's full of checks and balances.
And yet, nothing's happening.
So it's not nothing.
Some things have been stopped.
I have a friend who works for Radio for Europe,
which is one of the US foreign broadcasters that the administration has tried to shut down,
and they fought back in the courts.