Private Truths, Public Lies
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Jan 2026 on The Ezra Klein Show.
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Henry Farrell💬 Mentioned
…discussing how authoritarian regimes sustain themselves through uncertainty and false appearance of consensus
“Okay, so the way in which I think about Havel's story is to introduce another academic. I'm a professor, so professors, I guess, have professional guild responsibilities. So it's a book by a guy called Timur Kuran, who's a somewhat conservative libertarian professor in Duke, called Private Truths, Public Lies. And so the argument more or less is you can think about political society and authoritarian regimes as being like a collective action problem, where if everybody knew how much the regime was hated, everybody could rise up against it.”
The Ezra Klein Show — The Week the World Admitted the Truth About Americaat 50:00
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