Quote of the day: Populists can't look forward

“Populists can’t talk about the future, only the past”
- Timothy Snyder
Heard on https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=438&artikel=7229514

Sorry, I can't make the link work properly.

He speaks in English.  Interviewer's comments are in Swedish.

Some of his books are:
On tyranny : twenty lessons from the twentieth century 
The road to unfreedom : Russia, Europe, America.  This book was the subject of his interview (he spoke English).

Bloodlands : Europe between Hitler and Stalin

These are available in the Duluth Public Library.

Thought for the day - Islamic history and militants

This morning I was listening to a Feb. 3 podcast of Sverige Radios "God Morgon, Världen" (Swedish Radio's "Good Morning, World).  It had a bit from a reporter in Timbuktu.  She quoted one of the residents with something like "Who are these Islamic radicals to teach us about Islam?"

Timbuktu is known for its Koranic University, madrases, and mosques.  See UNESCO's World Heritage List on Timbuktu.

The invasion of the radical Islamists seems to me akin to some militant Christian sect forcing everyone to believe Revelations to the exclusion of everything else in the Bible and church history.