Timothy Snyder

Five things to remember about war:

#NoKings

Thanks to @jimswift.bsky.social for joining Dayton-area reporters in covering this terrible news from Springfield. I wrote about the fascist backdrop here: snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle... www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cruelt...

One more thing you can pattern recognize from the 1930s.

Yes, they were. We were. In the Orwellian way — the courage to see the absolutely obvious. But the most important way they were right was in the insistence on speaking out, on showing up, on organizing. (1/2)

The embarrassing decision to call Lake Ontario “Lake America” is an admission of defeat. If we can’t understand basics of economics and politics, if we must lose a trade war to Canada while we are losing a shooting war to Iran, let us paste our name somewhere. snyder.substack.com/p/our-trade-...

Well deserved!

Putin enjoys humiliating Americans in Iran but wants Trump in power. We tend to start our coverage from our own people and what they say rather than from the actual strategic and political position. It is helpful to read @phillipspobrien.bsky.social phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-ratcli...

Lecture 7 of "Hitler and Stalin Today." "How was Mass Killing Possible?" These crimes were committed by human beings, so they raise questions about the political conditions necessary for mass atrocity, and how people did and can react to those conditions. snyder.substack.com/p/how-was-ma...

This is the right move for Canada following several wrong moves by the US.

One of the world’s leading war reporters with a very helpful analysis. See also her forthcoming book. www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/futu...

Kathy Chow, one of our postdocs at Public History Lab, with the cover story of this week’s Maclean’s. macleans.ca/longforms/ju...