- An important, and alarming, article by journalist and historian Josh Marshall: “Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act: Notes on Preserving the American Republic,” Talking Points Memo, March 15, 2025. Opens in a new tab.
- Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (New York, NY: Crown, 2017). “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.” Here’s a short version: https://scholars.org/contribution/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny-twentieth
- Timothy Snyder, On Freedom (New York, NY: Crown, 202)). “On Freedom takes us on a thrilling intellectual journey. . . . Snyder identifies the practices and attitudes—the habits of mind—that will allow us to design a government in which we and future generations can flourish. We come to appreciate the importance of traditions (championed by the right) but also the role of institutions (the purview of the left).”
- Ben Rhodes, “There Is a Way for Democrats to Stop Trump and Save America,” New York Times, Opinion, Mar. 21, 2025. Gift article; should not be behind a paywall.
- Michael Lewis, Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service (NY, NY: Riverside Books, Penguin, 2025). A timely collection of essays about who works for the American people. A good civics lesson for us all. While you’re reading Michael Lewis, you might pick up his earlier book, The Fifth Risk, about the ignorance of the first Trump administration, and how that worked out for us all.
- Native News Online, article on the removal of the Navaho Code Breakers from federal military websites
- YouTube suggestions: Robert Reich (former Labor Secretary under Obama), MeidasTouch (lawyers, many hot takes), Legal Eagle (in-depth legal examinations of current issues, not hot takes), Richard Wolff (professor of economics).
