Think up your own way of speaking. When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we… — Timothy D. Snyder Absence Copy Share Image
The aspiring tyrants of today have not forgotten the lesson of 1933: that acts of terror - real or fake, provoked or… — Timothy D. Snyder Death Copy Share Image
In rhetoric and action, the Trump administration has aggrandized 'radical Islamic terror,' thus making what Madison called a 'favorable emergency' more likely. — Timothy D. Snyder Action Copy Share Image
It's easy for us to congratulate ourselves on our own moral superiority when compared to the 1930s, but I'm not sure that… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
The Constitution is worth saving, the rule of law is worth saving, democracy is worth saving, but these things can and will… — Timothy D. Snyder Constitution Copy Share Image
People who lived in the 1920s and '30s and '40s were not so different from us. In some ways, they were probably… — Timothy D. Snyder Attention Copy Share Image
Brittle masculinity, in the right setting, becomes political atrocity. Strength brings problems; weakness brings others, but weakness posing as strength is the… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
If it turns out that there are emotions and values that are more numerous and more vibrant than indifference and hatred, things… — Timothy D. Snyder Emotions Copy Share Image
We think about democracy, and that's the word that Americans love to use, 'democracy,' and that's how we characterize our system. But… — Timothy D. Snyder Democracy Copy Share Image
In the descent from a world of factual discourse into a world of emotions and alternative realities, the first step you take,… — Timothy D. Snyder Emotions Copy Share Image
I worry about global anti-Semitism - not just as a bad idea that originates from bad people, but also as something that… — Timothy D. Snyder Anti semitism Copy Share Image
Mr. Trump is primarily a television personality. As such, he is judged by that standard. This means that a scandal does not… — Timothy D. Snyder Desire Copy Share Image
