LIVE with JASON STANLEY, Author of How Fascism Works, in conversation with TIMOTHY SNYDER

[@garretttedeman]

Wow so awesome to get both Snyder and Stanley together on this one. ...Really two leading lights in some of these dark times.

[@Mentisia]

Skip to 1:55 for event intro, 3:55 to skip to first speaker

[@wendysgarden4283]

Thank you. I was hunting for if Snyder had been interviewed since the tyrant's troops attacked democratic protestors and this is as close as I could find. It ended up being satisfying. Upsetting, but then I knew it would be, because it's an upsetting reality. Edit: now I'm reading Mr. Stanley's book, at the same time as Steve Benen's book on the post-policy GOP, and I feel that I'm seeing reality much more clearly. It's even scarier than I thought 3 weeks ago.

[@freekfaro5606]

Very good. I appreciate this conversation enormously, even a year later. Maybe more so.

[@thermodynamics458]

I agree that the internet has done enormous damage to democracy. However, it's not ALL bad, and this video is one such example.

[@sandal_thong8631]

I was interested in the local news comment. I've never been that interested in local news programs on TV, but the idea presented is that it makes a common truth. Also, without it (i.e. newspapers and journalism) people go to national news for events far away from them, and may be prone to conspiracy theories. I was thinking that public television (and public radio) may have local discussion programs, but do various stations have a nightly local news program?

[@AI-xs4fp]

Writing here from the future in 2022 and this discussion is incredibly prescient and still a growing problem.

[@Extra-dg7uv]

You should have asked Snyder what he thinks about Frank Dikotter saying that he doesn't know where Beijing is!

[@guytouquet]

This is what they're teaching at Yale these days? Empty discussion, leading nowhere.

[@denisdaly1708]

Well, if you were paying attention, they predicted the insurrection in January. Their work is very prescient.