Snyder timothy on tyranny5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet the characterizations of consolidated authoritarian rule are the backdrop for the lessons, and as a result there is plenty in the book that is of relevance to understanding North Korea as well. The first lesson, for example, is “do not obey in advance,” noting how Austrians who were not Nazis acquiesced to the Anschluss. On Tyranny is written to citizens of a democratic country under stress, and puts a lot of the onus on being alert and standing up to democratic erosion. ![]() The book is remarkable in part for its very premise: that the United States is at risk of backsliding (my take on these issues can be found in joint work with Robert Kaufman Mickey, Levitsky and Way at Foreign Affairs have the most chilling analysis). Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale and author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, has written a remarkable short book on tyranny. ![]()
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