Timothy Snyder
American historian · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1969 · age 57
Timothy David Snyder is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust.
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, If we don't have access to facts, we can't trust each other. Without trust, there's no law. Without law, there's no democracy.
Our second basic founding document, the Constitution, is basically a design how to prevent someone becoming a tyrant.
The twentieth century was well and truly over, its lessons unlearned. A new form of politics was emerging in Russia, Europe, and America, a new unfreedom to suit a new time.
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He holds the inaugural Chair in Modern European History, supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies, at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. From 2017 to 2025 he was the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University.
