Authoritarians Are Great at Propaganda—Until They’re Not
Their cultural campaigns reveal how brittle their art can be.
Isabel Ruehl
Isabel Ruehl is a former assistant editor at The Atlantic. She was previously at Harper’s Magazine, and her work has been published in the Mother Jones, The Boston Globe, and MIT Technology Review, among other publications.
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