Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum comes to Marian Anderson Hall on Monday, Nov 16, at 8 PM. She's a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, an author, and a staff writer for The Atlantic, and she's spent her career writing about the things that usually keep people up at night: authoritarianism, the global rise of autocracy, and the way misinformation works. If you've read her work, you know she doesn't just look at the surface—she digs into how these systems actually function and how they take hold.

This talk is part of the 22nd season of the Philadelphia Speakers Series, which brings in a different voice each time. Applebaum's beat is one that feels particularly close to home these days, and having her in the room to walk through it is a different experience than reading her columns. She's an expert on the mechanics of power and the ways it shifts, so the evening should be as much about the history of how we got here as it is about where things are headed.

One thing to keep in mind before you plan your night: the Philadelphia Speakers Series is offered as a subscription only. That means you can't just grab a single ticket for this one; you'll need to be a subscriber to the series to get in. If you've been following the series for a while, this is one of the season's big names. If you're new to it, it's a good chance to see how the whole thing works.

Applebaum will be at Marian Anderson Hall, inside The Kimmel Center at 300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19102. The talk starts at 8 PM on Monday, Nov 16.