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Some German Jews voted as the Nazi leaders wanted them to in the hope that this gesture of loyalty would bind the new system to them. That was a vain hope.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
people were scared, and scared people defer to authority.
Sylvain Neuvel • Only Human (The Themis Files Book 3)
If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The Straussian Moment
gwern.netHis 1989 film, Weapons of the Spirit, is a documentary about Le Chambon; it has become an educational staple that I watched in my high school French class.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
The secular argument for human freedom, launched almost three centuries ago under the rubric of “natural rights,” has often been reduced to a calculation of probabilities: democracy and the personal freedoms it protects are good not because they have an inherent moral superiority over other forms of organizing society, but because they are the leas
... See moreGeorge Weigel • Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
Hall believed that new trouble was indeed soon to come in Europe. He visited Germany and Austria in 1934. Ever the intelligence man, he reported his observations about the National Socialist movement to the government. He also described his experience to a friend in America. “All the young are in the net,” he wrote, “anyone who tried to keep out of
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