# Lucid

> A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world.

- **Platform:** substack
- **Category:** Politics
- **Subscribers:** 209K
- **Paid subscribers:** 18K
- **Weekly growth:** -0.2%
- **Monthly growth:** -0.8%
- **Last updated:** 2026-10-15
- **Author:** Ruth Ben-Ghiat
- **URL:** https://lucid.substack.com
- **Profile:** https://newsletterinsights.io/newsletter/lucid

## Recent Posts

- [Lock Them Up: Jailing Investigators is an Authoritarian Specialty](https://lucid.substack.com/p/lock-them-up-jailing-investigators)
- [Registration Link for Live Q&A, Jan 14, 1-2pmET](https://lucid.substack.com/p/registration-link-for-todays-live)
- [From Budapest to Boca Raton, Illiberal Politicians Target LGBTQ Populations](https://lucid.substack.com/p/from-budapest-to-boca-raton-illiberal)
- [How to Push Back Against Propaganda ](https://lucid.substack.com/p/how-to-push-back-against-propaganda-06f)
- [Labour Victory Means No More BoJo & Co. in Britain; No Q&A Today](https://lucid.substack.com/p/labour-victory-means-no-more-bojo)
- [When White Racial Rescue Becomes a Foreign Policy and National Security Priority](https://lucid.substack.com/p/when-white-racial-rescue-becomes)
- [When Coup Planning Becomes Public](https://lucid.substack.com/p/when-coup-planning-becomes-public)
- [What the History of Coups Reveals about Jan. 6 ](https://lucid.substack.com/p/what-the-history-of-coups-reveals)
- [Registration link for today's Q&A, March 25, 1-2pmET. ](https://lucid.substack.com/p/registration-link-for-todays-q-and)
- [Why Patriotism is Essential to the Defense of our Multiracial and Multifaith Democracy](https://lucid.substack.com/p/why-patriotism-is-essential-to-the)

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