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Ideas · 2026-09-28 · 55 min · 8,062 words

How to Defeat Authoritarianism | Bashar al-Assad's Syria

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One summer evening when she was twenty years old, something terrible happened to Vienna Luke. I can't figure it out, but I do know that it was a violation. Then people started asking questions. What a creep. Who else knows about this? From CBC's personally, this is Agent Layla. The story of how a victim

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Thank you very much. Thank you all for being back here yet again today for another installment of Ideas of Stratford Week. It just warms my heart having you all here. Thank you for coming this morning. Велком туадія з айна аед. And welcome to a summer morning at the Stratford Festival in Ontario. For the fourth in our series of conversations about the rise and fall of authoritarian режимes.

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