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Anne Applebaum

American-Polish journalist and historian

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Won a Pulitzer for her history of the Soviet Gulag, and writes about how autocracies and disinformation threaten democracies.

Anne Applebaum sits in the right-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: leaning free market and leaning libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly institutional on institutions, strongly interventionist on interventionism and leaning globalist on nation.

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Where Anne Applebaum sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyLeaning free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureSlightly progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionSlightly secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Anne Applebaum

Francis Fukuyama American political scientist99%Donald Tusk Prime Minister of Poland, 2007 to 2014 and 2023 to present99%Thomas Friedman American columnist and author99%Fareed Zakaria Indian-American journalist99%Guy Verhofstadt Prime Minister of Belgium, 1999 to 200899%Jens Stoltenberg Prime Minister of Norway and NATO Secretary General98%Larry Summers American economist and former US Treasury Secretary98%Kaja Kallas EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, 2024 to present97%

People furthest from Anne Applebaum

Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral thinker, 1828 to 191014%Dorothy Day American journalist and Catholic Worker founder, 1897 to 198015%Jair Bolsonaro President of Brazil, 2019 to 202216%Hibatullah Akhundzada Supreme Leader of Afghanistan, 2021 to present16%

Political views closest to Anne Applebaum

Liberal internationalismBacks a rules-based world order of alliances, trade and institutions to keep the peace.99%Third Way centrismCombines market economics with moderate social policy and pragmatic problem solving.99%Humanitarian interventionismHolds that outside powers may use force to stop genocide and mass atrocities, even…97%European federalismWants Europe's states to pool sovereignty into a shared democratic federation.97%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Mateusz Skwarczek (cropped by Oeleau ), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.