<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/stories/autocracy-and-the-challenges-to-our-imagination.html" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>10/07/2022</pubDate><title>Autocracy and the Challenges to Our Imagination</title><description>In the Brooks College House Great Room a few days before Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen addressed a campus audience, a group of students were discussing the writer's works. Franklin &amp; Marshall College offers students a hands-on education that emphasizes close relationships with faculty. Students flourish in a supportive community that treats them as an individual, and their successes continue long after F&amp;M. The College is a national leader in launching students and alumni to opportunities where they make a difference in the community and the world.</description><author>Peter Durantine</author><image><img src="/uploads/files/63246723370553659-10-03-masha-gessen-reading-group-11-dg.0.38.1200.723.full.jpg" alt="Russian Professor Jon Stone leads a discussion on journalist Masha Gessens works on authoritarianism as first year Madison Galczyk turns to a particular passage."/></image><image-caption/><tags><tag>Brooks College House</tag><tag>Russian and Russian Studies</tag></tags></item>