‘In America, the law is king!’ ‘No King! No Tyranny!’ For a skeptical Thomas Paine, every day was ‘No Kings Day.’
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For the classical Greeks, citizenship was a binding relationship of reciprocal duties and obligations owed to all other citizens. The law, they believed, was king.
Medieval Europeans thought about politics in terms of leadership and often criticized rulers for ‘tyranny’ − both in government and in the church.
For our societies to survive, we must take action to figure out the psychology behind an attraction to tyrants — or we will be led in the future by fear-mongering, war-mongering tyrannical liars.
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Assistant Professor of Business, Redeemer University
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Professor Emerita of Medieval History, University of Rhode Island
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Assistant Professor, Human Resources Management and Organizational Behavior, Neoma Business School
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Canada Research Chair, Organizational Behaviour & Human Performance, McMaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Lecturer, Université de Lille