Timothy Snyder
3/30/202650 min
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.
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First 90 secondsTimothy Snyder· Guest0:01
Freedom can't be understood as something which just happens or which is morally neutral. Freedom is the value of values. It's a thing you have to care about in order to care about other things. And so like all values, it demands a certain amount of courage.
Speaker 20:13
[on-hold music] From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman. On Design Matters, Debbie talks with some of the most creative people in the world about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on. On this episode, a conversation with historian Timothy Snyder about our current political moment and what the idea of freedom has to do with it.
Timothy Snyder· Guest0:42
The ideological thing that is deeply wrong with the US is that we misunderstand freedom.
Adam Grant0:46
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