Timothy Snyder, “Freedom Moving Forward”

Americans speak often of freedom, but what do we mean? How do our mistakes about freedom in the past hold us back now? And given our current predicament, what is the right way to think about freedom moving forward?

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About the Speaker

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. His latest book, Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary (Crown, 2020), is an urgent examination of healthcare as a human right. He is also the author of The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Crown, 2018), On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Crown, 2017), Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (Tim Duggan Books, 2015), Thinking the Twentieth Century (with Tony Judt; Penguin, 2012), and Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Basic Books, 2010), among many others. He has received numerous prizes for his work, including the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, the literature award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Václav Havel Foundation prize, the Foundation for Polish Science prize in the social sciences, the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, the Dutch Auschwitz Committee award, and the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Thought. He has also received Carnegie and Guggenheim fellowships.

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