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Beyond the Lecture: Masha Gessen and Joshua Yaffa

Beyond the Lecture: Masha Gessen and Joshua Yaffa

Update: 2019-01-31

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New Yorker staff writer Masha Gessen was at the American Academy in late November to talk about her most recent book, The Future Is History. In this podcast, she discusses Russia, cynicism, doublethink, and the imaginative powers of democracy with fall 2018 Academy fellow Joshua Yaffa, the Moscow correspondent for the New Yorker.

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Beyond the Lecture: Masha Gessen and Joshua Yaffa

Beyond the Lecture: Masha Gessen and Joshua Yaffa

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