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Many of us have never lived in a failing democracy with autocracy rising and are moving through the world with a panic-energy that can be exhausting and repellant. It’s wasteful, too. Worry, I’ve heard it said, is a form of worshipping the problem.

Twenty Lessons by Timothy Snyder, read by John Lithgow, is a great start for understanding how we’re being …

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