Every time I succumb to the brain-rotting allure of TikTok it seems as if I see the same guy : a wiry middle-aged dude with a grizzled gray beard and knit beanie standing in some vaguely rural setting. Often, he’s talking about On Tyranny , a book by the history professor Timothy Snyder, published in 2017. In one video , he holds up the book to the camera and insists that if it were “required reading in every middle school across the country, we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in now.”

That guy in the beanie is not alone. Publishers Weekly reported last month that On Tyranny is the top seller at a number of independent bookstores , where sales for titles on autocracy are booming. TikTok and other social media platforms abound with posts about On Tyranny , which offers it

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