
A Portrait and a Mirror: On “To Kill a Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism”
What creates conditions for a dictatorship? The daily indignities that force people to turn to a messiah-despot....
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Liesl Schwabe served as a 2018-19 Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in Kolkata, India. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, LitHub, and Words Without Borders, among other publications. She currently directs the Writing Program at Yeshiva College.