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Tim Snyder - The Levin Professor of History at Yale University and the author of the books Our Malady, On Tyranny, The Road to Unfreedom, Black Earth, and Bloodlands. Timothy Snyder's work has received the literature award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding.

The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.

TIMOTHY SNYDER, ON TYRANNY

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