#TimothySnyder
Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/trump-greenland-us-morally-wrong-strategy-disastrous?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Today's my birthday, my 75th—impossibly old!—and I'm receiving this wonderful video of John Lithgow reading Timothy Snyder's twenty lessons in tyranny as a birthday gift. Which I now offer to readers here….

#tyranny #authoritarianism #dictatorship #Trump #Musk #Republicans #TimothySnyder
/1

https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing & sharing - Prof. Timothy Snyder

“Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago... They open the twenty chapters of On #Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.

Above is his film. Below is the text, excerpted from the book. Do share this.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow?r=2m1hl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

If you haven´t read the book #OnTyranny by (ex-) Yale #History professor #TimothySnyder yet, now is certainly a good time.

"...when political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become even more important..."

Here is a new presentation of the 20 lessons, read by actor #JohnLithgow.

#MustSee, #DefendDemocracy, #resist

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow?r=fci0c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&timestamp=585.1&showWelcomeOnShare=false

“historian Timothy Snyder [taught] a course at Yale University called The Making of Modern Ukraine. And he’s generously making the lectures available on YouTube–so that you can follow along too. All of the currently-available lectures appear above… A syllabus for the course can be found here.”

These are excellent. They were posted a couple of years ago, just as relevant today. I have’t watched all yet but will.

https://www.openculture.com/2022/09/the-making-of-modern-ukraine-a-free-online-course-from-yale-professor-timothy-snyder.html

OMG

#TimothySnyder left the country for #Canada

Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley, along with Yale history professors Marci Shore & her husband Timothy Snyder, are taking their teaching to the University of Toronto to advocate for #democracy, speak out against #fascism & teach without fear of #academic capitulation to the #Trump White House, they say.

#tyranny #authoritarianism #autocracy #ThoughtPolice #dissent #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/us/yale-university-scholars-toronto-trump/index.html

Three #Yale professors are leaving for #Canada because of #Trump — including #TimothySnyder, whom you'll have seen quoted here.

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/03/27/three-prominent-yale-professors-depart-for-canadian-university-citing-trump-fears/

“Yale professors, #TimothySnyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of #OnTyranny,
and #JasonStanley, a philosopher and the author of How #Fascism Works,
move to #Canada”
(to positions at the University of Toronto). https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03/stanley-from-yale-to-toronto.html

Someone just shared this with me. Holy shit.

“Yale professors, #TimothySnyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of #OnTyranny, and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of How #Fascism Works, move to #Canada” (to positions at the University of Toronto).

https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03/stanley-from-yale-to-toronto.html

Timothy Snyder on antisemitism in the US. Very good analysis.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/antisemitism-and-antisemitism
#trump #musk #antisemitism #usa #timothysnyder

#TimothySnyder sees the mistreatment of #Ukraine's President #Zelensky in #Trump's Oval Office as antisemitic- part of a "trivialization of #antisemitism" that's becoming prevalent at the moment
https://snyder.substack.com/p/antisemitism-in-the-oval-office

Essential piece by Timothy Snyder on the #antisemitic
attack on #Zelenskyy in last week's Oval Office "meeting" with #Trump, #Vance, and #Glenn: "Multiple interrogators would encircle the dissident, and talk among themselves about his supposedly #Jewish betrayals and failures. Encirclement, bullying, belittling."

https://snyder.substack.com/p/antisemitism-in-the-oval-office

#TimothySnyder
#Fascism
#USPol

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/historian-analyzes-devolving-relations-between-u-s-and-ukraine-after-oval-office-spat “Strategically, what we are doing, what the #unitedstates is doing,is trading a set of Western alliances for an alliance with #russia. Now, the main way Russia engages with us is by stealing our technology and by hacking into our infrastructure.The Russian economy is smaller than #canada but we are nevertheless going to #trade 80 years of alliance with reliable partners that are 15, 16, 17 times bigger than Russia as an economy for an alliance with Russia.” #timothysnyder

If you haven’t done it already, it’s a good time to watch #TimothySnyder’s Making of Modern Ukraine – one of the very few good lecture series on Ruś and Ukraine’s history for western audience.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8HlMe0yXHd8-qaQFAZMJ9e3RCdLhpwMY

Bezos wants that the opinion pages of the Washington Post only write about two topics: personal liberties and free markets. He should read the book from Timothy Snyder about what freedom actually is about. It's about more than the two subjects mentioned. it's also about government that protects the weak and support those in need for example.
https://timothysnyder.org/on-freedom
#bezos #freedom #timothysnyder #washingtonpost #politics

From #TimothySnyder today: "If you voted #Republican, and you care about your country, please act rather than rationalize. Unless you cast your ballot so that South African #oligarchs could steal your data, your money, your country, and your future, make it known to your elected officials that you wanted something else. And get ready to protest with people with whom you otherwise disagree."

Snyder is one of the most lucid, clear eyed historians of his time. Reading this now for no particular reason. ROFL. It is a bit slighter than I would have liked - really more of an extended essay. But it is great food for thought.

#Books #Bookstodon #TimothySnyder

(comment on On Tyranny)

On this episode of Story in the Public Square, Yale University professor #TimothySnyder warns about the rise of new autocratic movements in the West—some in traditional adversaries and some, much closer to home.
#video
https://www.pbs.org/video/story-in-the-public-square-4212024-wtfwux/