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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 11 May 2017

Yale professor discusses

best-selling book ‘On Tyranny’

HILLEL ITALIE a guide for many worried “And my sense, which has
AP National Writer about democracy under been confirmed in the
NEW YORK (AP) — Timothy Trump’s administration, a weeks and months that
Snyder would have pre- nonfiction counterpart to followed, is that many
ferred a different path to such dystopian best-sellers Americans understand
the best-seller lists. as “1984” and “The Hand- something strange has
The Yale University profes- maid’s Tale.” happened, but don’t quite
sor and scholar of Europe- During a recent interview know where to turn for
guidance about what to
In this May 26, 2015, file photo, Dwayne Johnson arrives at do.”
the premiere of “San Andreas” at the TCL Chinese Theatre in
Los Angeles. ON THE STRENGTH OF
Associated Press AMERICAN DEMOCRACY=
Rock nation? Dwayne “How long has America re-
ally been a democracy, in

Johnson considering the sense of people being
allowed to vote? I would
say, circa 1965, Civil Rights
run for White House Act? If not all of your citi-
zens can vote you’re not
really a democracy. So
LOS ANGELES (AP) — believes “in inclusion.” were talking about half
After conquering Hol- Johnson declined to a century, tops. In addi-
lywood, Dwayne “The endorse anyone in the tion to that, we’re not a
Rock” Johnson may have presidential race last democracy now, in the
his sights set on the White year even though he very important sense that
House. The actor and says both campaigns ap- there are voter suppres-
former pro wrestler tells proached him. Johnson sion laws, there is an elec-
GQ that a presidential explains that he didn’t toral college, which means
run is “a real possibility.” want to sway anyone’s people’s votes don’t count
Johnson says if he were opinion or make people the same as other people’s
president, leadership unhappy with his politics. votes. There is a gerryman-
would be a top priority. Johnson would have at dered system at the level
Johnson isn’t revealing least one high-profile of congressional districts,
much about his political backer in NBCUniver- so that again means peo-
leanings, but says he’s not sal vice chairman Ron ple’s votes don’t count the
in favor of President Don- Meyer, who tells GQ he’d same as other people’s
ald Trump’s proposed vote for Johnson “without votes.
travel ban because he a question.”q “And we have an absurd
6 Prince siblings want This image released by Tim Duggan Books shows “On Tyran- amount of money in poli-
tics, which creates a situa-
quick ruling that they’re ny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,” by Timothy tion in which someone like
Snyder.
Mr. Trump can say, ‘Sure
Associated Press
his heirs an history, whose books in- with The Associated Press, I’m a billionaire, but at least
I’m your billionaire. You
CHASKA, Minn. (AP) — clude “Bloodlands: Europe Snyder spoke of why he don’t know what the other
side’s billionaires are.’”
A Minnesota judge says Between Hitler and Stalin,” posted the initial list, what ON WHAT HE’D LIKE TO SEE
he’ll take a request that was so alarmed by the concerns him now and CHANGE=
Prince’s six siblings be de- election of Donald Trump what he’d like to see hap- “The things that happen
clared his lawful heirs un- last fall that soon after he pen. here now, that so alarm us
der advisement. posted a list on Facebook ON HIS INITIAL FACEBOOK or surprise us, have gen-
Carver County District of “20 Lessons from the 20th POSTING= erally happened in some
Judge Kevin Eide said Century on How to Survive “What I thought I should try form in some other country
in January he wouldn’t in Trump’s America.” His to do as quickly as possible, in the not too distant past.
declare the heirs of the advice ranged from “Be and economically as pos- But we’ve shut ourselves
late rock superstar until kind to our language” to sible, concisely as possible, out from that.
appeals run their course “Believe in truth” to “Do was pass on what I think I We’ve made ourselves
for others whose claims In this May 19, 2013 file photo, not obey in advance.” understand about regime much more provincial than
of heirship have been re- Prince performs at the Bill- The list went viral and the change, in the negative we used to be. I would think
jected. board Music Awards at the Penguin Random House sense, from democracy to a thoughtful government,
But lawyers for Prince’s MGM Grand Garden Arena in imprint Tim Duggan Books authoritarianism. rather than attacking the
sister and five half-siblings Las Vegas. released an expanded, And (to pass on) what I press as is the case now,
don’t want to wait, say- Associated Press pocket-sized edition of Sny- think I’ve learned from would incentivize young
ing any further delays will der’s warnings that quickly people who are smarter people to go into careers
increase costs to the es- advisement. reached high on Amazon. than me and who have ex- in journalism. A thought-
tate and impede its effi- Prince left no known will com’s best-seller list. With perienced more than me, ful government would find
cient administration. Eide when he died of an acci- more than 100,000 copies in Europe in the 20th cen- ways to support institutions
said Wednesday he’ll dental painkiller overdose in print, “On Tyranny: Twen- tury, about what that looks of the press which actually
take their request under in April 2016. q ty Lessons from the Twenti- like and how it should be
eth Century” has become resisted. report abroad. q