The moral dilemma of the "banality of evil"?

NYC opinion: M. Gessen columnist provides reasons for why he says the U.S. has become a "police state."

Don't let them distract you, we are here.

Kong Harald: – Vi må tåle å se urett som er begått – For noen sluttet krigen aldri, sa kong Harald i sin tale på minnemarkeringen for frigjøringen. – En sterk tale i en mørk tid, sier kommentator og legger til at kongen også kom med en tydelig hilsen ...

“Today we mark 80 years since the joyous day in our history: the Liberation, May 8, 1945. But it was not a day of joy for everyone. The war continued to cast long shadows over the lives of innocent people (…) Many had lost so much. For some, the war never ended.” – King Harald

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Yesterday I was reading an essay by Gadamer, and though it focused on the university as an institution, this one sentence stayed with me and felt deeply resonant with what is happening in the world today.

"Freedom will not be guaranteed us, if we do not know how to use the small space of freedom which has been left us."

— Hans-Georg Gadamer, The Idea of the University – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (1992)

Hi Sandra, great list ✨. Could you please add me?

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...