On the American Gulag

On the American Gulag, by Soviet history scholar Kate Brown:

Whether or not one agrees that American detention centers and secret prisons are the “Gulag of our time,” the comparison deserves serious consideration. It might help us shine a torch into the dark corners of repression, where the totalitarian qualities of our own society lurk, before the scale of violence ascends to Gulag dimensions.

See the complete interview with Brown at Harper’s.