Timothy Snyder

Historian, author

TED Speaker

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Timothy Snyder helps us forecast the future by understanding the past.

Why you should listen

Timothy Snyder is the Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He is the author of a dozen books, including the bestsellers On Tyranny, Our Malady, The Road to Unfreedom, Black Earth and Bloodlands. His work has been translated into forty languages and received a number of prizes, including the literature award of the American Academy of Art and Letters, the Hannah Arendt Prize and the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding.

Timothy Snyder’s TED talk

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Timothy Snyder

Is democracy doomed? The global fight for our future

Posted Feb 2023

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Step away from the internet, and other ways to fight tyranny: A conversation with Timothy Snyder and Rick Perlstein

February 24, 2017

Timothy Snyder grew up in America, but as a historian of 20th-century Europe at Yale, he’s spent much of his adult life in, or thinking deeply about, Central and Eastern Europe. And what he sees there — especially in looking at the Europe of the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s — is a pattern that may […]

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Watch now: What’s next for democracy? A live Facebook chat

February 22, 2017

Join us now on Facebook Live for another episode of TED Dialogues, our response to current events, adding insight, context and nuance to the conversations we’re having right now. Join us Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 1–2pm on TED’s Facebook page. Our speakers are two historians who will try to help us make sense of […]