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    Why Interview an Autocrat?

    Readers respond to our April 2022 cover story and more.
    by The Atlantic May 17, 2022 5 minutes
    Source: Katie Martin

    Absolute Power

    Mohammed bin Salman is modernizing a stubbornly premodern kingdom, Graeme Wood wrote in April. He has also eliminated rivals and critics, creating a climate of fear without precedent in Saudi Arabia’s history.

    Graeme Wood’s article is the best argument I’ve read in some time for why the West needs to wean itself off oil. Mohammed bin Salman is very scary, and holds great power only because of our oil addiction. The prospect of him being in power for 40 to 50 years is truly chilling, and should be all the incentive we need to move to renewable energy now.

    Thomas Cannon
    Leicester, N.C.

    No sooner had I read Graeme Wood’s fascinating article on absolute power in Saudi Arabia than I saw the news that 81

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