On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

To have such a framework requires more concepts, and having more concepts requires reading.

Post-truth is pre-fascism.

History does not repeat, but it does instruct.

Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy.

You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.

Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do.

Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so.

A nationalist will say that "it can't happen here," which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it.

Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power.