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Timothy Snyder, Joyce Vance, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Phillips P. OBrien, Terry Moran, Lawrence Lessig, Jon Finer, Jake SullivanOpening the future by understanding the past.
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On Tyranny — Special 250th Edition
On the Fourth of July, Americans celebrate a rebellion.
Our official commemorations, organized by the White House, will instead.
We are told today, by the men who would humiliate us, that America was founded in a spirit of innocence, tha...
Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio (updated)
In the schools and churches of Springfield, Ohio, people are again making hasty preparations for a “large deportation” of Haitians promised by the president.
Back in February, when I first wrote on this subject, the city was on the brink...
Of Stoicism and Stupor
As Donald Trump announced his whimsy war in Iran, I was reading about another imperial campaign, long ago, against an Iranian people.
In the late second century AD, the Roman Empire confronted armies that had crossed the border at the Danu...
Strongmen Can Fail if We Act with Joyce Vance
Dear readers:
Hope you have a cup of coffee in hand for this one. Tim joined Joyce Vance, former U.S. Attorney during the Obama Administration and host of on Substack, to talk about what language to describe our moment, democracy, and ci...
Iran, Ukraine, and Freedom with Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer
Dear thinkers:
Earlier today, Tim talked with and , two former senior national security aides to President Biden on their new show, “The Long Game.:
They began with Iran — and, specifically, the power the United States has effectively...
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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.
Professor of Strategic Studies, @univofstandrew. Writing about grand strategy, war, history, Romanesque and Baroque buildings I love, Sicily, and pretty much anything else that takes my fancy.
Independent journalist, formerly with ABC News. I publish a Substack newsletter called “Real Patriotism,” and host a podcast by the same name on YouTube.
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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