Author: Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and
the author of Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning.

Preparing for the Trump Era

By Timothy Snyder
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Posted in Politics, United States

Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. Here are twenty lessons from the twentieth century, adapted to the circumstances of today: (More…)