Timothy Snyder on Trump and Zelensky

Timothy Snyder, a history professor at Yale, has been among this country’s most eloquent and thoughtful defenders of human rights in recent decades. We found his concise response on video to the obscene performance in the Oval Office yesterday by the current president and his acolytes to be particularly important. It is taken from Prof. Snyder’s Substack, to which you might consider subscribing. He encouraged people to share the video.

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From Timothy Snyder:

I teach history at Yale, and am a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. I speak five languages reasonably well, a few more quite badly, and read about a dozen. My work concerns east European history, the Holocaust, the history of the Soviet Union, and the history of Ukraine.  I have also written about U.S. history, international relations, digital politics, and political thought. In the pamphlets On Tyranny (2017) and Our Malady (2020) I use some of what I have learned from history to make judgements about civics and politics in the present. On Tyranny has inspired poster exhibitions, films, sculpture, a punk rock song, a rap song, a play, and an opera.