Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny

About one month after Donald Trump was inaugurated, Timothy Snyder’s newest book - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (published by Tim Duggan Books, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group at Penguin Random House) - quickly shot to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Professor Snyder is the Levin Professor of History at Yale University, the author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a permanent fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.

On this episode, Chris talks with Professor Snyder about the lessons in On Tyranny, the frightening parallels between our current reality and the reality faced by 20th century Europeans, and how knowing history can help us make history in defense of American democracy.

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