Not P but the Fall of Democracy in Europe and more

[Allan Balliett]

*I found Sam Harris'  interview with Yale history professor Timothy Snyder* to
be very informative and alarming.

Of course, I'm just recovering from having someone tell me that it was
Democracy that killed Socrates, so I'm really sensitive to the fickleness
of 'the animal' right now.

Timothy published the small book "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the
Twentieth Century" a couple of months back as he as became aware of how the
current US administration seems to be following a playbook created by the
fascist regimes that took over European democracies in the 20th Century.

Primarily, it is a book of solutions, but it is also a guide to how easily
the loss of freedoms can be 'normalized' and accepted.

The Sam Harris podcast is at

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
<http://samharris.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ee4348d0101136a85c13bc49&id=c2e548deda&e=ba1d411eb7>

There are forum links on that page where you can follow the inane pushback
by deniars  that the clarity of Snyder's historically-based analysis
provokes.

Snyder's bio:

Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and a permanent
fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He received his
doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British
Marshall Scholar. Before joining the faculty at Yale in 2001, he held
fellowships in Paris, Vienna, and Warsaw, and an Academy Scholarship at
Harvard. He has spent some ten years in Europe, and speaks five and reads
ten European languages. He has also written for *The New York Review of
Books, Foreign Affairs, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation,* and *The
New Republic* as well as for T*he New York Times, The International Herald
Tribune, The Wall Street Journal,* and other newspapers. He is a member of
the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
He is the author of several award-winning books including *The Red Prince:
The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke*, *Bloodlands: Europe Between
Hitler and Stalin,* and *Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and
Warning.* His
latest book, *On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century*
<https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804190119?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwsamharris03-20&camp=1789&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=0804190119>
reached
#1 on the *New York Times* bestseller list for nonfiction.
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