About this episode
Timothy Snyder discusses the misunderstandings of freedom and the threats to truth and empathy in the current political climate.
Timothy Snyder is a leading historian of Eastern Europe, the Holocaust, and political conflict, and the author of more than a dozen books, including Bloodlands, Black Earth, On Tyranny, and, most recently, Unfreedom. He has spent his career using the past to help us see and understand the present with clarity, and joins to discuss how we misunderstand freedom, why truth and empathy are under threat, and what this political moment asks of us.
People in this episode
Host: Design Matters
Guest: Timothy Snyder
Topics covered
- Eastern Europe
- Holocaust
- political conflict
- freedom
- truth
- empathy
Keywords
- Timothy Snyder
- Eastern Europe
- Holocaust
- political conflict
- freedom
- truth
- empathy
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Bloodlands, Black Earth, On Tyranny, Unfreedom
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