I really wanted to like Peter Pomerantsev’s new book, This Is Not Propaganda. His columns in the LRB, the Guardian, and the American Interest (where I was once a staff writer) are almost always incisive and absorbing. And his first book, Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible, established him as a clearheaded capturer of the mind-fogging milieu of Putin Era Russia. So it was a relief to find his sophomore effort is not a failure by any standard. And its thesis, that “the [muddy, surreal, fact-immune] future arrived first in Russia” but is now expanding around the world, has …read more
Source:: The Washington Free Beacon
