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History can familiarise and it can warn. Today, we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the twentieth century. But when the political order seems imperiled, our advantage is that we can learn from their experience to resist the advance of tyranny.

Now is a good time to do so.

By Timothy Snyder

Buy On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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