All posts tagged: On Tyranny

History does not repeat, but it does instruct

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We are no wiser than Europeans of the 20th century, yet we can learn from their experience.

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When the dog catches the car, the car always wins. A radical minority in America has just caught the car.

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Short looks at the books I’ve pulled from my library shelves in a year both heartbreaking and galvanizing.

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Timothy Snyder and Lewis Lapham on the response to tyranny and the hard labor of democracy.