Thinking about...
Timothy Snyder, Joyce Vance, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Ambassador Susan E. Rice, Lawrence Lessig, Jon Finer, Jake SullivanOpening the future by understanding the past.
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A World of Empire
Welcome to the second lecture of my new lecture series, “Hitler and Stalin Today.”
This lecture is titled “A World of Empire.”
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Snyder is an American historian of Europe and a public intellectual on both continents. Among his books are On Tyranny and Bloodlands, which appear in new editions in 2022. His work inspires art and music, and is read at protests around the world.
Former federal prosecutor. MSNOW legal contributor. Law Professor. Writes with chickens & knitting at hand. Author of Civil Discourse on Substack. My first book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual For Keeping A Democracy, is a NYT bestseller!
Historian of authoritarianism and propaganda. NYT Bestseller: Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. Now writing: Resisting Autocracy. Consultant film & TV. Rep'd by CAA & The Gernert Company.
Former U.S. National Security Advisor, Domestic Policy Advisor, and Ambassador to the United Nations
law professor and democracy activist.
Former NSC and State Department official. Fake lawyer. Retired journalist. Co-Host of The Long Game podcast.
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