From Sarah Palin to the Dreyfus Affair to Stalinist torture rooms, from World War II to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this conversation with Marci Shore covers a lot of ground.

Marci is a Professor and Chair of intellectual history at the University of Toronto. She is the translator of Michał Głowiński’s The Black Seasons, and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, and The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution.

Towards the end of the podcast, she mentions the website Small Acts of Democratic Resistance. This site is meant to be a platform for solidarity and moral support, but also a resource for journalists, especially those outside of the U.S.

If you’re in the U.S. and are taking part in any acts of democratic resistance, large or small, you can write to [email protected] to get in touch with the website.

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