Applebaum rightly places kleptocratic institutionalized thievery at the center of her analysis.

Applebaum is cleareyed about the difficulties of rectifying this situation.

Applebaum is strong on how Western misjudgment and greed enabled and empowered autocrats over the decades.

Modest in scale. It’s less a work of scholarship than the kind of tightly argued, crisply written policy brief Washington insiders might flip through on their charter flights to Aspen.

A brief book that covers a great deal of ground. Yet in only 176 pages, not much can be covered well.

Well-positioned.

Applebaum... cannot be accused of being a bad writer. In under 200 breathless pages, she makes out her case in an urgent, almost steamrolling prose.

The strength of Autocracy, Inc lies in its description of how autocrats bend and distort opinion, and find allies across national boundaries.

The liberal West is under threat. Its enemy: a collection of antidemocratic forces which Applebaum lumps together under the reductive moniker Autocracy, Inc..

Central to any discussion of modern totalitarianism..