Timothy Snyder on freedom in the twenty-first century

In this episode, Timothy Snyder joins Jessica Pisano, New School for Social Research professor of politics to discuss his two most recent books, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century and On Freedom. The conversation explores what freedom means in the current, fluctuating era and how collaborative communities build freedom. Timothy Snyder holds the inaugural Temerty Chair in Modern European History at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, and is one of the world's foremost scholars of the history of Central Europe, Ukraine, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. This event was part of the New School for Social Research Festival of Ideas.Learn more about The New School for Social Research