Timothy Snyder
History Professor, Yale University and Author, “The Road to Unfreedom”
Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He is also the author of On Tyranny, Black Earth, and Bloodlands. His work has received the literature award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut. Snyder’s most recent book is The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America.
“Only a narcissist would want to become president.” This is the psychology of an authoritarian unpacked.
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First, we have to understand the internet. Then we have to understand the audience.
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Thinking in teams is destroying American life
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Great again? Why America stopped looking forward to the future.
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You are leaking data, and absorbing it, says Yale historian Timothy Snyder. But for whose benefit?
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Is there an arc to history? The danger that we’re in right now in the U.S. is that we’re shifting from a politics of inevitability to a politics of eternity, which affects how we view history, believes historian Timothy Snyder.
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Has the constant barrage of political news got you down? Yale University historian Timothy Snyder has a solution.
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How does Vladimir Putin see the world? To understand how he controls Russia and pushes his agenda overseas, look to the works of 20th-century fascist philosopher Ivan Ilyin.
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