I'm writing a new biography of Dorothy Thompson right now. She is utterly fascinating and often so prescient.
19.01.2026 18:23 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I'm writing a new biography of Dorothy Thompson right now. She is utterly fascinating and often so prescient.
19.01.2026 18:23 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“Like prime, but with human beings”
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I don’t know why we’d trust the federal government again.
This is evil for the sake of it.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
A very powerful piece.
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Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb
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Indeed.
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.
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Currently appearing at UK bus-stops.
More of this pointed ridicule, please.
2016, 2020, 2024—and they still don’t realize they’re on the menu…
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At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year
If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:
Yes.
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"Anyone with an interest in the history of political vengeance should pay a visit to the rare-book room at the Library of Congress and request the bound volume with the call number DD244.R6."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
This is the model for what our leaders should be doing. Governor JB Pritzker: please continue to lead. Sign me up to support you!
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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
"Where Law Ends Tyranny Begins"
Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
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youtu.be/IdygrcFcyyY
This is the first thing that has made me laugh in 3+ weeks.
Deserves a follow.
24.01.2025 05:46 — 👍 439 🔁 73 💬 8 📌 1Now this is important. We knew, but this most reliable confirmation is devastating.
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On 21 March 1933 Adolf Hitler was officially sworn in as chancellor of Germany. The same day he pardoned 8,000 Nazis, who had committed violent acts, starting with the failed Hitler coup on 8 November 1923.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
Truth.
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Brilliant
Revisiting “The Plot Against America” www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
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More examples of Nazi-Deutsch, version Tr*mp 2.0
contrarian.substack.com/p/distorting...
This needs to be widely known.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Well said.
open.substack.com/pub/frenchfr...
