{"id":1314,"date":"2017-10-20T10:23:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T09:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2017-10-27T10:27:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T09:27:24","slug":"review-timothy-snyder-on-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-timothy-snyder-on-tyranny\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Snyder is an internationally-recognised expert on tyranny.<\/p>\n<p>His previous books have included studies of both right-wing and left-wing tyrannical regimes, focussing on Stalinism and Nazism.<\/p>\n<p>So when he writes a book that is, at its core, about Donald Trump, it is time to worry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Post-truth is pre-fascism,&#8221; he writes, in one of many passages that seem to cast the US as a society in a pre-fascist stage.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the 20 &#8220;lessons&#8221; are quite good, though some are banal (give money to good causes), but the main lesson seems to be this: study history.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/1114532\/on-tyranny\/\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Snyder is an internationally-recognised expert on tyranny. His previous books have included studies of both right-wing and left-wing tyrannical regimes, focussing on Stalinism and Nazism. So when he writes a book that is, at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}