Freedom, tyranny and democracy...trouble in Paradiso with Timothy Snyder

See historian and author Timothy Snyder for an evening on freedom, tyranny and democracy, in conversation with Roxane van Iperen.

Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. In his book On Tyranny Snyder offered a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. What can we do to defend true freedom and design a future where we can flourish?

Timothy Snyder is one of the most incisive historians and authors of our time. He is known for his profound analyses of twentieth-century political history and the dangers of authoritarianism in the modern era and the author of twenty books, including his groundbreaking books On Tyranny (2017), The Road to Unfreedom (2019) and On Freedom (2024).

Writer and lawyer Roxane van Iperen (1976) has become an indispensable…