About this episode

Timothy Snyder discusses the misunderstandings of freedom and the threats to truth and empathy in today's 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. Learn more about our flagship conference happening this April at  attend.ted.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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