In his 2017 book “On Tyranny,” an analysis of America’s anti-democratic shift under Trump, Yale historian Timothy Snyder implores his audience, “Do not obey in advance.” “Most of the power of ...

I n his essential On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder warns us not to “obey in advance” if we want to defend ourselves from impending tyranny.To that admonition, I would add “don’t praise in ...

A lot has happened since historian Timothy Snyder ... Among the lessons Snyder draws from our fraught history with authoritarianism, the most important is: Do not obey in advance.