Garry Kasparov on Dictators and Democracies

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🗓️ 5 May 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Former world chess champion and human rights activist Garry Kasparov shares his perspective on threats to Western democracies from dictators abroad and illiberal movements at home. Analyzing the geopolitical situation, Kasparov argues that the challenge to the West posed by dictators like Putin remains significant and even growing. Turning to Western societies themselves, Kasparov diagnoses a dangerous complacency about the effort required to sustain political liberty. Finally, Kristol and Kasparov discuss how America can recapture the will necessary to defend itself and its principles.

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0:00.0	And the Hi, I'm Bill Crystal. Welcome to Conversations, and I'm pleased to be joined today again by
0:19.8	Gary Kasparov, the great world chess champion, democracy activist, author of several books,
0:25.1	including the one we spent a conversation discussing, I think, when it came out, what, three years ago.
0:29.2	Yeah, almost three years ago.
0:30.0	Winter is coming.
0:31.4	So that was on the state of the world and has winter come.
0:35.0	What are you more cheerful, less cheerful?
0:37.0	What was the subtitle of that book?
0:38.3	The subtitle, why Vladimir Putin and the enemies of the free world must be stopped.
0:43.0	And I think it's quite a timely conversation.
0:47.0	So how's that going?
0:48.0	How's the free world doing against the enemies of the free world?
0:50.0	No.
0:51.0	When they book was released in October 2015, there were many good positive reviews,
0:57.3	raving reviews, the Wallster Journal, weekly standard, the Economist, Financial Times, London Times.
1:05.0	Of course, there was the trashing review from New York Times based on character issues.
1:12.0	Trying to present that the book was all about
1:14.4	Obama-Bashing, though the book was highly critical about Bush 43, about Clinton,
1:20.9	and about the overall policy after Cold War.
1:26.8	And my criticism was based on the fact that since 1991 America failed to come up with a long-term
1:31.3	strategy.
1:32.3	And I think this is one of the most important
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