![]() ![]() “(I)ndividuality, endurance, cooperation, novelty, honesty and justice figure as political virtues. Snyder centers on the notion that the world may be lurching from a “politics of inevitability” - the notion, as Snyder writes, that a better future is ahead, “the laws of progress are known, that there are no alternatives, and therefore nothing to be done” - and a “politics of eternity,” or the idea that time is “a circle that endlessly returns to the same threats from the past … (that posits) that government cannot aid society as a whole, but can only guard against threats.”įraming the book with six political virtues, Snyder offers alternatives in his chapter titles: Individualism or Totalitarianism Truth or Lies. “The Road to Unfreedom” offers a brief, potent and carefully documented history of Vladimir Putin’s consolidation of power in Russia, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. ![]()
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