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585: Timothy Snyder | Twentieth-Century Lessons on Tyranny

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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The Book Is a Case for History

The book is a political pamphlet that gives advice drawing from history. But as such it's also a case for history, says the author. The thing that terrifies me is how we can just imagine that this has never happened to anyone else either. If we can accept that, you know, then the way we see the present changes. Because instead of just being stunned and confused and overwhelmed by the daily new cycle, we can think, ok, i'm part of some kind of a tradition of people whom iam going to learn"

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