Russians who voted in 1990 did not think that this would be the last free and fair election in their country’s history, which (thus far) it has been. - Timothy Snyder

Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. Do not fall for it.

Both fascism and communism were responses to globalization: to the real and perceived inequalities it created, and the apparent helplessness of the democracies in addressing them. Fascists rejected reason in the name of will, denying objective truth in favor of a glorious myth articulated by leaders who claimed to give voice to the people.

Between July 1942 and June 1943, only 4,705 Jews were admitted to the United States — fewer than the number of Warsaw Jews who were killed on a given day at Treblinka in summer 1942.