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Jan 20, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Timothy Snyder |David Schaefer |Elizabeth Matthew |Emina Melonic
It is always a shame when an author one respects for his main writings, publishes a book that is an absolute disappointment. This is what happened when reading On Freedom by Timothy Snyder, the Yale historian and author of rightfully acclaimed books such as Bloodlands, on the genocidal twentieth-century history of the region between Central Poland and Western Russia. In contrast, On Freedom is a political pamphlet, a peculiar mix of memoir, history, philosophy, commentary, and societal criticism.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Axel Honneth |Timothy Snyder |Amanda Tyler
A thoughtfully constructed argument in favor of work worth doing, and of workers treated as human beings. German ethicist and humanist philosopher Honneth turns his attention to the world of work—and all its indignities. Most people in a given society are workers, observes Honneth in this accessible work of political philosophy, and it is “one of the major deficiencies of almost all theories of democracy” that this fact is not of central importance.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Timothy Snyder
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In this engrossing and challenging examination of freedom and what it means to be free, Yale historian Timothy Snyder employs a heady mix of history, biology, civics, memoir, philosophy, and personal observation. Sounding like a favorite professor, Snyder demands the listener's undivided attention as he draws a distinct line between our freedom from such phenomena as government overreach and our freedom to thrive and make our own choices.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Manuel Betancourt |Alok Vaid-Menon |Timothy Snyder
A rewarding and insightful exploration of risk, desire, and anonymity. Across 10 essays, Betancourt effectively examines the dynamic intercourse between strangers and the titillating potential that “transient intimacies” can harbor.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
thecipherbrief.com | Timothy Snyder
BOOK REVIEW: On FreedomBy: Timothy Snyder / CrownReviewed by: Jean-Thomas NicoleThe Reviewer — Jean-Thomas Nicole is a Policy Advisor with Public Safety Canada. The opinions expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the official policies or positions of Public Safety Canada or the Canadian government. REVIEW — Timothy Snyder is an American contemporary historian with an impressive resumé. Dr. Snyder is the Richard C.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
theneweuropean.co.uk | Timothy Snyder |Matthew d’Ancona
PICK OF THE WEEKMEGALOPOLISGeneral releasePortentous, grandiose, prolix, self-indulgent, shamelessly lavish, flirting recklessly with incoherence: this only scratches the surface of what makes Megalopolis the extraordinary film that it is. Francis Ford Coppola has readily conceded that “there may be a period where it’s an apparent disaster”, and many of the early reviewers of his $120m self-funded movie, 40 years in the making, seem determined to help him fulfil that prophecy. Me?
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Talia Lavin |Alok Vaid-Menon |Timothy Snyder
Often repetitive, but with a point: the culture war is a real war, and the fundamentalists have their eyes on the prize. A reader of her book, warns peripatetic journalist Lavin, is “an enemy combatant in a war of the spirit that began before your birth and is being waged every day by determined, ordinary people you wouldn’t look twice at if they passed you in the street.” Those people, Lavin asserts, are a small minority; evangelicals represent just 14% of the populace.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Rowan Jacobsen |Ta-Nehisi Coates |Timothy Snyder
A treat for literate, adventure-loving foodies, best accompanied by a bespoke chocolate bar. Food journalist Jacobsen opens his comprehensive account in Oaxaca, Mexico, not far from a source of cacao and its resulting chocolate, so prized by the Aztecs that they expanded their empire far from its heartland to gain control of the Pacific coastal region where it grew.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Timothy Snyder |Paul Kalanithi
A moving meditation on mortality by a gifted writer whose dual perspectives of physician and patient provide a singular... A neurosurgeon with a passion for literature tragically finds his perfect subject after his diagnosis of terminal lung cancer. Writing isn’t brain surgery, but it’s rare when someone adept at the latter is also so accomplished at the former.
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May 8, 2024 | 
cnn.com | Timothy Snyder
Editor’s Note: Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and the author of “Bloodlands,” “Black Earth,” “On Tyranny” and the forthcoming “On Freedom.” The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more CNN Opinion. On Thursday Russia will celebrate Victory Day, its commemoration of the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945. Domestically, this is nostalgia. In the 1970s, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev created a cult of victory.
