On Tyranny
On Tyranny was our August 2026 book club selection.
From the publisher
The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.
On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.
Related
📖 It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
🎧 American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson — Gaslit Nation
🎥 A Night at the Garden — a seven-minute documentary assembled from footage of a 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden
🏛️ Americans and the Holocaust — an online exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
📺 The Plot Against America — HBO’s adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel, imagining Charles Lindbergh’s election and an incremental American descent into antisemitism and fascism.
📺 The Man in the High Castle — An alternate history in which the Axis powers won World War II and divided the United States.
📺 Nazi Town, USA, American Experience documentary that explores the German American Bund’s rallies, collaboration with the KKK, youth camps, and use of patriotic imagery to make fascism appear distinctly American.
