All posts tagged: Timothy Snyder

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Oligarchs are “offering no future beyond acting out their midlife crises on the rest of us.”

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Each month I have a goal of reading five books. Here’s my list from July 2024.

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We are no wiser than Europeans of the 20th century, yet we can learn from their experience.

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Everyone disguises our powerlessness to overcompensate for our addictions and attachments.

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Recent pieces by historians on democracy and politics as we enter an election year.

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Odesa is added to the World Heritage List as Timothy Snyder speaks to why the world needs Ukrainian victory.

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Agatha Christie’s best-known mystery sets me off on a year of reading crime stories…fictional and real.

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President Zelenskyy reminded Americans of who we say we are, and why that matters to the world.

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All serious observers believe that political journalism in the US is broken. It needs fixing before it is too late.

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Timothy Snyder on how sometimes you change the subject, and sometimes the subject changes you.