Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny
Renowned historian Timothy Snyder will discuss his new book "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. In recent weeks the United States has seen unprecedented changes to the fabric of our national and global identity. As noted historian Timothy Snyder explains, democracy can fail and has failed. Snyder offers today’s reader a guide to identifying and understanding the frightening parallels that exist between our current reality and the reality faced by Europeans of the twentieth century. Through the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, democracies across Europe would yield to fascism, Nazism, and communism. Americans have always held tight to the belief that such regime change can’t happen here—but that is a dangerous illusion.