Celebrities and Scholars Recite 'On Tyranny' Lessons as July 4 Warning Against Trump's Authoritarianism
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Marlow Stern
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A coalition of celebrities, activists, scholars, and writers — including Mark Ruffalo, Sarah Jessica Parker, Margaret Atwood, and Judd Apatow — have come together to mark America's 250th anniversary by reciting lessons from Timothy Snyder's 2017 book "On Tyranny." The project serves as a warning against what Snyder calls President Trump's authoritarian turn, contrasting with Trump's self-focused July 4 celebrations. The participants deliver twenty lessons from the 20th century about how democracies can slide into dictatorships.
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VarietyCelebrities and Scholars Recite 'On Tyranny' Lessons as July 4 Warning Against Trump's Authoritarianismvariety.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledTimothy Snyder, the bestselling author, historian and expert on fascism, recruited dozens of luminaries to recite lines from his 2017 book 'On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century'
The book analyzed what he called 'America's turn toward authoritarianism' under Trump by looking at how democracies transmogrified into dictatorships
While President Trump has chosen to mark America's 250th anniversary with gaudy displays honoring himself, a team of actors, activists, scholars, comedians and writers have assembled to deliver an urgent warning about the fragility of our democracy
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