Culture | The menace of mendacity

For modern autocrats, lying is more useful than killing

“Spin Dictators” examines the phoney democrat’s arsenal of deceit

Apr 2nd 2022

Spin Dictators. By Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman. Princeton University Press; 360 pages; $29.95 and £25

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