75. On Tyranny: Timothy Snyder in Conversation

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Esteemed author and thinker Timothy Snyder’s conversation at our 2024 Festival was a resounding highlight, roaming through a wide array of sociopolitical topics with incisive eloquence. He returns to consider a book that has only grown in relevance in the years since it was published: the #1 New York Times bestselling guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, On Tyranny. An American historian who recently moved to Toronto, Snyder shares his deep knowledge and perspective of the evolving political landscape, and revisits his essential body of work, in conversation with John Freeman.

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John Freeman

JOHN FREEMAN has hosted Alta‘s California Book Club since its founding in 2020. He is an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf, and he edited Freeman’s (2015–2023), a literary annual of new writing. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing, as well as the anthologies Tales of Two Americas, Tales of Two Planets, The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, and Sacramento Noir. He is also the author of three poetry collections, Maps, The Park, and Wind, Trees. His work is translated into more than twenty languages, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. The former editor of Granta, he lives in New York.

Timothy Snyder

TIMOTHY SNYDER holds the inaugural Chair in Modern European History, supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies, at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. His bestselling books include On Tyranny, On Freedom and Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin.