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June 17, 2021

Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder joined us on June 17 at 8pm ET for a Munk Dialogue that explored the unique danger 21st century authoritarianism presents to the liberal world. The archived version of Snyder's Dialogue is available only to Munk Members. Membership is free. Click HERE to join.

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Timothy Snyder is one of the most compelling historians writing today. He is the author of a string of bestselling books on the roots of contemporary authoritarianism and its threat to liberal democracy, including On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University.

The live Munk Dialogues are available to anyone to watch. Archived versions are for Munk Members only. Membership is free.Membership is free. Visit our Membership page here to explore our membership options and privileges. If you are already a member, log on using your membership credentials to view the Dialogue video.

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Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder is arguably the most compelling historian today, writing on the roots of contemporary authoritarianism and its threat to liberal democracy. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, On Tyranny. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.

Snyder's work has appeared in forty languages and has received a number of prizes, including the Emerson Prize in the Humanities, the Literature Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Václav Havel Foundation prize, the Foundation for Polish Science prize in the social sciences, the Leipzig Award for European Understanding, the Dutch Auschwitz Committee award, and the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Thought. Snyder was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, has received the Carnegie and Guggenheim fellowships, and holds state orders from Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland.