Why freedom is on the ballot this November: Historian Timothy Snyder

On the GZERO World Podcast, Ian Bremmer sits down with author and historian Timothy Snyder to discuss the importance of freedom in the final stretch of one of the closest and most contentious presidential races in modern history. Snyder uses his new book, “On Freedom,” to discuss the many ways freedom has been used and, often, misused in politics and society.
Snyder suggests we expand our understanding of freedom to incorporate the notion of freedom "to" rather than just freedom "from." Freedom, he says, is about envisioning a better future rather than just protecting oneself from an outside threat. It's the freedom "to" have healthcare or to love whom you love rather than just the freedom "from" oppression or prejudice.
Snyder also delves into the critical role that newspapers and the press play in talking about freedom. Amid the rising tide of misinformation, Snyder warns that “if we...have different facts we're not going to end up in a free world, because whoever has the most power over fantasy is going to end up deciding things.”
Snyder concludes by discussing how freedom can be applied more globally. In exploring different interpretations of freedom, he highlights Ukraine’s view of freedom as an ongoing journey. Freedom, he says, is the means to a better life rather than the end goal.
Host: Ian Bremmer
Guest: Timothy Snyder
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[@max_skim-pontoon-cough]

Snyder is what happened right before became prominent DEI. Back in the 2000s, DEI was Ivy League schools hiring guys like Tim as a token working class history white guy

[@kweholt]

How does paying upwards of 50% of your income in taxes figure into your freedom equation?

[@playadeoro6806]

great interview

[@dsamh]

Holistic absurdity. No one understands the concept of "freedom" any better after listening to this. Freedom is hard to define for those who seem to want to redefine words non stop. And also for those that try to justify the degradation of freedom since.... oh.... the end of the cold war and really kicked off with the unholy alliance of a suped-up-patriot-acting USG and the rising internet-social-landscape. I dont think "patriot act" came up once here. I don't think the origin of the concept, disposing of euro-aristocracy and serfdom came up. Not one word of the ANTITHESIS of western freedom, China. This interview sheds ZERO context of why people are CRYING for it. What is missed. What is lost. Clown Point Zero.

[@garybowler5946]

You prove Snyder's point. You need to be able to think to understand his ideas.

[@garybowler5946]

Have you heard the song by Janis Joplin where she sings "freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" ? This not a new idea.

[@dsamh]

@@garybowler5946 Please let me help you understand the difference between poetry and policy... just a tiny bit better.

[@garybowler5946]

​@@dsamhAre you an algorithm?

[@garybowler5946]

What's funny to me is how fast you people............ Your algorithm needs a new opening.

[@saxet812004]

Lol this guy is hilarious 😂😊

[@garybowler5946]

He's talking over your head. Look up Timothy Snyder with your Google machine, you're the clown here.

[@saxet812004]

​@@garybowler5946 that would be funny but we can start by I watched his entire Yale lecture series on the Ukraine, and other content for years now. You and Timmy Boy are HILARIOU!!!

[@garybowler5946]

@@saxet812004 You watched the entire series just for laughs? Strange way to get your giggles on.

[@saxet812004]

@@garybowler5946 damn, you got me I'm strange or is it "weird" lol You people are just funny. It will be off the chain when Il Duce is President again!!! IT'S COMING

[@garybowler5946]

@@saxet812004 Do you mean deuce, as in the deuce Trump dropped in his adult diaper. Or maybe you mean El Duce the Italian fascist of WWll fame. The one they hung by his nuts?