I'm delighted to launch my new book, "On Freedom," at the New-York Historical Society, in conversation with David Blight. Tuesday, September 17 at 6:30pm. Register here and use code SNYDER24 for discounted tickets. www.nyhistory.org/programs/on-...
In conversation with historian David Blight, Timothy Snyder reevaluates the concept of freedom in America, presenting it as freedom to instead of freedom from.
U.S. followers: For a limited time, preorder ON FREEDOM and receive one of these stickers and a video message from me. Preorder and redeem here through 8/15: timothysnyder.org/on-freedom
"Usually, vice-presidential candidates are selected for virtues... Donald Trump is searching, quite literally, for vice." open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Trump’s VP Search and the Politics of Impotence
Important work on impunity and war — and how to address the first to stop the second. tol.org/client/artic...
NGOs are showing how the meticulous collection of evidence of war crimes and targeted judicial efforts can bring the Russian perpetrators to justice for its actions in Ukraine sooner rather than later...
"Nazi legal theorists argued that politics was a matter of defining the enemy and choosing a side. The rule of law was to yield to a special sort unrule, in which the chieftain defined politics by choosing an enemy to be blamed for his own crimes." open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Modern revenge culture, explained by Mrs. and Mr. Alito
Whenever Russia conquers territory in Ukraine, it murders civic leaders and other civilians, sets up torture chambers, and deports children for assimilation in Russia. Ukrainians resist because defeat or surrender means Russian genocidal policy on the scale of their entire country.
11/11. A defeat of fascism is not a negation. It is an affirmation: of a future that can be more beautiful, more just, and more free.
10/11. Compared to challenges that others face around the world, our odds in 2024 and 2025 are excellent. Americans have chances, not excuses.
9/11. We know from history that fascism can lose. And we know today the contests that must be won.