Timothy Snyder is called “the leading interpreter of our dark times.” As a historian, he has given us stunning new interpretations of political collapse and mass killings. As a public intellectual, he has used this knowledge for advice and predictions, working against authoritarianism.
On Freedom is a captivating intellectual journey that Snyder offers to readers, drawing on the works of philosophers and political dissidents, conversations with contemporary thinkers, and his own experience of growing up in the era of American exceptionalism. For Snyder, true freedom is not so much freedom from, but the freedom to flourish, to take risks for the sake of the future we choose by working together. Freedom is the very value that makes all other values possible.
