“Democracy is under assault and in retreat around the globe, a crisis that has intensified as America’s democratic standards erode at an accelerating pace.”
— Freedom House report
Tag: Timothy Snyder
BOOK REVIEW: An idiot’s guide to tyranny: Some thoughts about Timothy’s Snyder’s ‘On Tyranny’
“Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so.”
— Timothy Snyder, from ‘On Tyranny’
Bits & Bytes: Timothy Snyder at Williams; 350Mass Berkshires meeting; BerkshireSPEAKS
Timothy Snyder’s talk will look at the structural causes for how Hitler’s ideology could and can function, and how similar risks might be faced today due to climate change and state collapse.