How to Stand up to a Dictator, by Maria Ressa

Sometimes I read a book because I want to learn more about a specific subject. Other times I pick it up with a purposeful curiosity, open to whatever the author wants to tell me. This is one of the latter. I knew that Maria Ressa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021. I knew that she is a journalist from the Philippines, where the violent populist president Duterte was in power. What the book was about exactly, well – I’ll find out. People who win the Nobel prize will have something to say, and ...