Tadd Luhan

If you give would-be fascists all your microphones and megaphones they don’t need guns to take over.

When you've been told for DECADES, that an English major or liberal arts degree is worthless and everyone should "learn to code," yeah, we're gonna end up with a society that thinks what writers do is easy and shouldn't be valued and AI is the solution. It's all connected!

1. History is not there for you to like or dislike. 2. History is there for you to learn from it. 3. History offends you? Even better. Then you are less likely to repeat it. Read this out loud, then read it again. Then teach it to your children and grandchildren.

When I was doing a book tour in Germany in 2017, a German police detective who was a child during Hitler’s regime said to me, “be very careful. Democracy disappears by inches and then quickly.” I believed him then and we are watching it now.

The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting.

A court that does not recognize the full human rights of women is not a legitimate court.

In his gargantuan novel series and memoirs, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn considered how and why the horrors he detailed in The Gulag Archipelago came to occur. go.nybooks.com/3KoV6qv

Ukrainian firefighter saves books from a building destroyed by Russians in Chernihiv, #Ukraine

Hard to see how Moscow can achieve any political objectives in Ukraine. I always thought the war would be a terrible miscalculation. Don't see any way military means will get them there now. Here we see how wrong Russian assumptions were about Ukraine.

cancelling dostoyevsky because of putin is like killing an old woman with an axe because you are going through existential angst

If tomorrow Russia is still a member of the world community, able to do business, participate in international organizations and kick fucking soccer balls around in World Cup qualifiers as if nothing happened, humanity has failed.

Once more, I stand resolutely with the people of Ukraine in this 21st century Sudeten crisis that threatens to spiral into utter catastrophe. Слава Україні, слава героям, та смерть російським фашистам! 🇺🇦✊ #StandWithUkraine

in their attempts to subvert the rights of free peoples at home and abroad and tyrannize humanity under a new banner of autocracy. To a free and independent Ukraine! 🇺🇦🇺🇸✊

not with one-off weapons sales, symbolic sanctions, or paternalistic half-measure displays of support, but full and material to Ukraine's patriots and an open rejection of the Putinites and their international cronies…

I originally wrote this in late December 2021, but it is equally and far more urgently relevant today. An armed assault on a democracy by a fascist kleptocrat with revanchist aims in Eastern Europe is a threat to all democracies, from Tallinn to Prague, from Washington to Taipei.