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• 18-Jul-2024
  Timothy Snyder on Political Violence and History Elucidating. Political Violence: We learn that violence that starts on one corner of the far right often ricochets. We find that the important threshold is the enabling of the violence. And we realize is what we do afterwards that counts the most. None of this makes the outcome of a horrid act completely predictable. But...

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• 21-Oct-2023
  Snyder on Musk It’s troubled me for a long time how much people I respect put faith into Elon Musk. Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands and On Tyranny articulates that and far more in this newsletter from earlier this month: How can we be alone in the universe?: Musk himself exemplifies the anti-scientific method. On X, he limits...

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