Our Long Road Out of Autocracy
Keeps playing with the screen off. The episode is played from Strict Scrutinyβs own podcast host.
Kate is joined by returning guest and friend of the show, Kim Lane Scheppele, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton, and one of the worldβs leading scholars of democratic backsliding, autocracy, and the rule of law. They discuss how the Supreme Court has been βcaptured,β the ways Donald Trump is attempting to remake Washington, D.C., in his image, and what Hungary can teach us about autocracy and how to recover from it.
Favorite things:
- Kate:Emil Bove Defended Trump in Court. Then Trump Made Him a Judge, Mattathias Schwartz (NYT); Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home, Stephen Starring Grant
-
Kim:Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan; Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID, Nicholas Enrich; The Dual State, Ernst Fraenkel; The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt; It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis; Borgen – Power & Glory (Netflix); Gok Wan’s Easy Asian (Prime Video)
Get tickets for STRICT SCRUTINY LIVE on November 6th in Washington, DC: Crookedcon.com
Buy Melissaβs book, The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader
Buy Leahβs book, Lawless, now out in paperback
Follow us on Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky
For a transcript of an episode of Strict Scrutiny please emailΒ transcripts@crooked.com
Check this story
Ask the AI guide
The guide explains what to check and where. It cannot see this article or recent news.
Is this AI-made?
AI checkers give a likelihood, not proof.