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Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder is an American author and historian who specializes in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust. He is a Professor of History at the University of Toronto and the author, most recently, of On Freedom (Penguin, 2024).
Articles
America’s weak strongman
Over the past two months, financial investors have hit upon a new trading strategy, based on a simple rule: TACO — Trump Always Chickens Out. America’s president threatens to slap massive import tariffs on friends and foes alike, or to remove the Federal Reserve chair, only to back down when the whip of the market imposes its uncompromising discipline. Then he switches back to tariffs, only to back down yet again.
It’s a pattern that extends beyond the economy. In fact, it’s the defining featur
Timothy Snyder: Thinking about freedom in wartime Ukraine
The following lecture was delivered in March 2023 at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy as part of a benefit conference to raise funds to support public outreach at Kyiv Mohyla Academy.
The subject I have chosen for myself is thinking about freedom in wartime Ukraine. The basis for this title is a conference I ran with some friends and colleagues in 2014, just as the Russian invasion of Ukraine began — the first Russian invasion, in the spring of 2014. I
