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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.”

Totalitarianism did not emerge from nowhere. It was a response to the world of the late nineteenth and early...

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New Lecture Series for the Public: "Hitler and Stalin Today"

Today, I am publicly releasing the first lecture of a ten-lecture course I taught at the University of Toronto this past year. The course is called “Hitler and Stalin Today.” Consider this a public resource for students, researchers, and an...

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Supergirl (Movie Review)

Supergirl appears to be a movie about whether it matters to keep your room clean.

From the early scenes we learn that Supergirl is a slob. Her residence -- the inside of a spaceship she is taking on a pleasure tour-- is a mess. Her dog eat...

23 days ago
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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...

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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...

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  • Timothy Snyder

    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.

  • Joyce Vance

    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!

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    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.

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    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.

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    Independent journalist, formerly with ABC News. I publish a Substack newsletter called “Real Patriotism,” and host a podcast by the same name on YouTube.

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