HeyJaredThe Freedom Academy with Asha Rangappa
A Substack that explores how we can develop our "moral muscle" to stand up for democracy -- and each other -- in this critical moment. Plus insight and analysis at the intersection of law, national security, and the intelligence community.
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Book Club Zoom Link, 9/30/26, 12:00 p.m. EDT (opens the original)
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Can’t wait for the discussion today with Lynne Olsen, author of The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp co-hosted with Ruth Ben-Ghiat! Ravensbrück was the only all-female German concentration camp, and comprised largely of political prisoners from the French resistance. At a time when wom
Upcoming Events, Week of September 28 (opens the original)
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Welcome to new subscribers! Scroll down to see the guest speakers, book club authors, and happy hour guests coming up!ON COMPLICITY AND COURAGEIf you are new to my Substack, I am doing research for my book, UNCOMPROMISED: Activating Your Moral Compass in an Age of Complicity, and using this platform to showcase some of the authors and research I am learning from to understand what makes people complicit in bad behavior, and learning from the people who take a stand against it. To this end, I’ll
Our Collective Conscience (opens the original)
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We had a great conversation during our happy hour yesterday about Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s latest book project about the different forms of collective resistance to autocracy. She describes some of them in our chat, and I can’t wait for her book to spell them all out in more detail.A few references/resources that are mentioned in our discussion:My (free!) class lesson on the Cultural Cold War and how the U.S. used the arts as a form of subversion;My <a href="https://asharangappa.substack
Happy Hour Discussion with Ruth Ben-Ghiat Zoom Link, 9/25/2026, 5:00 p.m. EDT (opens the original)
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My happy hour guest today needs no introduction for those of you who regularly follow this Substack. She is the author of Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present and a leading voice for democracy and the rule of law in this crazy time we are living through. I want to catch up with Ruth about her new book project, which as you will learn is complementary to my own — I’m very excited to discuss the themes she is unpacking and compare them with my own. I am especially looking forward to our talk l
Do You Have an Altruistic Personality? (opens the original)
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A despot easily forgives his subjects for not loving him, provided they do not love each other. — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in AmericaYou’ve probably heard of the “Authoritarian Personality.” It’s a personality profile developed by a team led by the German philosopher Theodor Adorno, who conducted a study in 1950 to examine what personality features make an individual more susceptible to fascist and authoritarian ideologies. The researchers created two measurement scales: one was the E-sc
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