On FreedomTimothy Snyder
On Freedom
by Timothy Snyder · first published 2024
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Timothy Snyder's book "On Freedom" might be a good read for you. It's about this common (but quite recent) fallacy that freedom means only freedom of government interference or oppression, rather than true personal freedom being something…
on “What's happening inside the NIH and NSF” ↗Like a lot of things recently, it reminds me again of Timothy Snyder's book On Freedom. I think the world would be on a much better path if more people took its core message to heart: that your "freedom" in how to lead your life is not just an absence of oppression, but something made possible…
on “Nine things I learned in ninety years” ↗> For as much as Texans talk about Freedom, states like Colorado seem far more free. A distinction that historian Timothy Snyder[1] wrote about in his recent book On Freedom, freedom to versus freedom from (positive versus negative): > To the Ukrainians, freedom does not simply mean the absence of Russian soldiers, but also the reconstruction of society — of schools, hospitals,…
He has a new book On Freedom, too. I haven't read it yet, but I have watched him give excellent talks on youtube, which reference it. I believe his core thesis in On Freedom is that America has focused on negative freedom, when…
on “On Tyranny [book]” ↗> People like you are the death of freedom. Define "freedom". Freedom to or freedom from? See Timothy Snyder's recent book On Freedom: > Freedom is the great American commitment, but as Snyder argues, we have lost sight of what it means—and this is leading us into crisis. Too many of us look at freedom as the absence of state power:…
on “EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google” ↗…supremacism — robs the American people of the critical skills they need to recognize authoritarian rhetoric and to see the promise of democracy and equality. * https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-09-13/on-freedom-... I have not yet read the book On Freedom yet (on hold list at my library), but have read some of his other work (e.g. Bloodlands). I have listened/watched some of his book tour talks and find he makes…
Two days ago, I purchased Timothy Snyder's two most recent books from a local bookstore for $40. (On Tyranny & On Freedom) What should be cheaper are school and textbooks. Those seem priced like a racket. Boycott Amazon, Buycott Local and support your neighbors
on “Books Are Not Remotely Too Expensive” ↗…environment between unequally resourced people and arbitrary executions of power, which I don't quite think are the same. > faustian bargain Timothy Snyder is my favorite political thinker, he recently wrote "On Freedom" and talks about "freedom from" vs "freedom to" at length. Money in many ways is freedom. If you don't have money you are not very free. So China getting richer, while in America Wages are stagnant and…
on “Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes” ↗