'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

they are really making a bet the likes of which we have not quite seen before in the history of authoritarianism but our media ecology is such that i do not think history is giving us a proper sense of how to make those odds