Historian Timothy Snyder on VP Harris’ “Freedom” Campaign | Amanpour and Company
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- In his new book, historian Timothy Snyder explores what freedom is, how it has been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival. The author joins the show.
Originally aired on September 23, 2024
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Thank you for featuring Professor Snyder. Thank you to Professor Snyder for your integrity and leadership.
Optimism and hopefulness are attributes that offer kindness and strength at the same time…
Thank God for Tim Snyder.
Timothy is a brilliant writer and so is Walter. Not only is Walter excellent writer he asks all the right questions when he gets in front of people for interviews.
I really appreciate this interview. I will buy the book because I desperately want to read anything that is positive and hopeful. I have been filled with so much anxiety and fear for the country into which I was born almost 80 years ago. I can envision the authoritarians taking over our government and every facet of our private lives. Even as he was speaking, I could see my life lost and his book, with tattered cover, lying half-burned in an alley. Shades of Fahrenheit 451 haunt my hopes for our nation's future and for the freedom of our people. I was born into a free country; I do not want to have to die in one without it.
Same age . Fear based organisations operate on intellect ( things ) alone. Soul based cultures are love based (people) ....freedom is the ability to choose and to use both protection and caring
It can’t be said often enough, check your voter registration and state ID rules, make a plan then vote the whole ballot blue.
I'll be getting both of his books Tryanny & Freedom. Great interview. Liked when he said, "You can't base a story about freedom based on your own life if you can't listen to other people and get a sense of their experiences".
You will be glad you got those books. I am ordering Freedom. Tyranny was definitely insightful.
Excellent perspective. Thank you prof Snyder for these new ideas of positive and negative freedom, very useful indeed.
"We have some pretty smart people in prison..." I concur so fully, I have been working in the carceral space and I am struck constantly by how much talent is squandered day by day by keeping people in these spaces for so many years.
Agree. I worked with teen boys in a treatment center. Those guys had so many interesting ideas and perspectives. All but a very few wanted to work and be helpful to their families and neighborhoods, however they could.
I'm Australian...and we don't have this 'freedom' narrative like the US so this big conversation about it seems oddly ordinary common sense to me. We have compulsory voting, not very free, but absolutely good policy because all citizens have to engage with our democracy as a duty to our common good. Very odd Americans find this difficult.
He also focusses on the erosion of the social contract…. Which is also rapidly eroding in Australia…
Or indeed parallels between US African Americans mass incarceration and our own First Nations population…
@@HS-fm9kv so, big subject. Although I can see the disproportionate incarceration rates for indigenous Australians, no doubt the legacy of colonisation (in the US slavery), I don't see that our democratic institutions are degraded, rather they have improved over time. Sure, the Voice lost, but it was clearly the will of the people who overwhelmingly considered it divisive policy.
@@HS-fm9kv...and then you can also look at the N.American settler-First Nations history. I'm S.African/Canadian, and recognise the shameful white history in SA, but there, there was no deliberate targeting of children, as there was in Canada starting in the 1800s; that was horrifying.
@@bigancientbirds It's a huge subject.
The institutions are doing fine (unlike US no movement to stop people voting) - but IMO the big ticket is the erosion of social - particularly around home ownership, rich getting richer/ poor are getting poorer and with that access to fair and equitable healthcare and education which plays into Dutton/ Credlin and co's unimaginative populist playbook that are woes are down to open borders, woken, LGBTI etc, I think the Voice debacle was in part a symptom of that, or at least played on those fears.
Granted, we are a million years away from the shitshow that is the US in that respect- but it's creeping in.
Many Americans appear to hate their own government. 'Washington' is often the target, not just for disagreement but portrayed as an oppressive force. I think this is probably encouraged by the Right wing using notions of 'freedom' because they want things to be unregulated so vested private interests can make more money and pay less tax.
Always a joy to listen to Tim
Im currently reading On Freedom. It is a very thoughtful, conceptually dense, and provocative book that is helping me to think about tenets of freedom and what the phrase, freedom to, means. Excellent book to read with a group and to discuss ideas.
I didn't realize my favorite historian grew up 20 miles from where I did!
True. Freedom: Loaded word. After listening to both, the word became even more loaded. A long walk is needed to process what has been said.
Sadly, there are a lot of people that believe that all government is bad government.
They’re idiots, of course.
Why is that sad? When you get older you will see the lies of our civilization. Politicians are criminals and the science of psychology proves it. They want your vote, but take money from special interests.
In America Freedom has always meant freedom to exploit the land, the environment and the people. Lawlessness.
Yep, just look at the folk heroes such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Bonnie and Clyde. And people like JW Booth flouting unification and murdering a president because his part of the country wanted free labor. Expansion into the west plus theft of land, broken treaties.
Gooooo Tim! 🙌 Going to hit the hay tonight, imagining you and Rebecca Solnit rapping back and forth with playful seriousness, finding better questions for us all. Thank you.
I'm a right-of-center dude - who has been against trump from the beginning.
My unsolicited advice at the beginning of the trump era to reach out to folk maybe like me, but who aren't as well read - is to lean into Freedom. The Republicans do not represent freedom, and freedom is the word to reach out to the people who do think America is the greatest country in the world, because we do have a story to tell about liberation and the unlocking of the human spirit. It's the one place I think where the left can meet the center-right - and walk away together arm in arm united against this rancid thing the Republican Party has become.
Well said ❤
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@@doggedinterlocutor I mean I'm only echoing the words of great scholars, strategists, students of politics and history. It's only the exact theme Harris is running her campaign with - and it's working.
But ya know you do you. Reactionary douche nugget as a stand in for a personality is allowed. It's a free country.
So far I have not found any disagreements with what Professor Snyder says.
A wonderful conversation! Thank You! Freedom! Positive Freedom! 💙💙💙🇺🇸
Timothy Snyder is one of the most intelligent people we have on this planet.
Wonderful interview! Thank you so very much. Extra special to hear of advice and insight from people in prison.
I will like to read this book! Professor Snyder has solid points here about institutions.
I really like Timothy Snyder. We can all benefit from what he writes and what he says.
"flourishing" is what we've had to learn to do without since the rise of the greed is good oligarchs.
Americans were dumbed down by progress which led them to take for granted their freedom. This election rides on the younger generations. I sure hope they are listening.
he's amazing, a unique American. In a good way.
Interesting piece, I am Canadian and I often think we have more personal freedom than our friends to the south. I think of two areas to illustrate this: education and health care.
The lower cost of higher education allows most Canadians to get a university degree without being saddled with a lifetime of debt that requires you to make very "unfree" choices regarding your career and life.
The second area is health care, most Americans get their health insurance through their employers, this gives employers an incredible amount of power over an employee. When I chose to retire at 55 I didn't have to worry about health care. If an employer is awful to work for we can quit twithout losing our health care coverage. I think tying health coverage to emopkyment is a form of serfdom.
We have problems in Canada no system is perfect but overall I think we are freer than Americans.
I look forward to your talk in Cleveland, end of Oct....important information....thank you for insightful work, understanding USA and your patriotism...blue wave coming to reject PROJECT 2025....💙💙💙💪
Americas NEEDS another Harris/Trump Presidential debate.
By using Ockham's Razor I believe that at the base level freedom is being fearless, that is being confident that we are safe in our community or environment.,
So he rediscovered the ideas of T. H. Green and Isaiah Berlin? It is an old argument, but one worth making again.
Great subject! Thank you Mr. Snyder! True freedom, at its core, is closely connected with true love: sacrificing our lives for the good of others and for a moral, ethical world order without the expectation of any benefit coming to ourselves. We need to get free from ourself which Mr. Trump cannot do!
Well, I do not necessarily disagree with your perspective; however, there is a benefit to be expected. But it is not a benefit measured in monetary scales. I call it "smart egoism," and this principle can be found in religion as well: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." While I am not a religious person and not from America, here is another phrase: "My freedom ends where the freedom of others begins." The inherent benefit is that if the majority lives by these simple "golden rules," you can be assured that you can live your life in your own way without being pressured by cultural norms while leaving room for the diversity that is crucial for a healthy society.
We're NOT going back!
Freedom is the ability to chase your destiny. In a civilized society, the ONLY laws that should be created are for the safety of the individual.
Dear Prof Snyder, I really want to hear your point of view. Like I did sitting through ca. eighteen hrs. of your Yale History of Ukraine lectures. Please don't allow unbearable audio quality to get in your way, like today.
Put these creeps in jail!!!!
I am very interested in whatever Timothy Snyder has to say. Unfortunately, this is indigestible from an audio standpoint. Please record better.
He describes a concept of freedom, that has been known to Europeans for ages, but it is new to US citizeens, who are constantly told, US ihas the biggest freedom.
A very good move to go inside prison to talk about freedom!❤
The host appears to be of North Korean origin. Possible relatives in Montreal, Charles-Philippe David (Chaire Raoul Dandurand). Several collaborators wear round glasses. This suggests that they may tend towards Trotskyism. Often, they take religious titles in their names, to display what they dislike. Yuval "Noah" Harari (interviewed several times on the show) and "Yoshua" Bengio are, like Amanpour, possibly Iranian (family of Westley Clark and the Shah of Iran).
Real freedom is about F2F: Freedom to Flourish
I wonder if Snyder gives credit to Isaiah Berlin for the concept of positive and negative freedom, and to Martha Nussbaum for the "human capabilities" element to the part of his thesis that emerges out of positive freedom. First rule of scholarship is to give credit to those who came before you, as I'm sure he does in the book.
Aloha, if you ever come to Oahu, maybe you could guest teach at our prison classes. My students would love that. You can be our guest in our home. I teach 8 limbs of Yoga, Universal and Individual disciplines, and stillness for self-awareness. We also teach life-long learning. Hawaii Yoga Prison Project. Louisa DiGrazia
This is very close to how scripture explains freedom which is to say that being a slave to Christ is the only true way to freedom and even He came not to be served but to serve. The USA has been too long without needing to sacrifice as a nation for each other which always enhances our character.
Yes but it also involves accepting that others don’t accept your personal faith. The very reason the majority of voters for Trump and Project 2025 are fundamentalist evangelical Christians is that they think that imposing their faith on all is the way forward.
“On Tyranny”
NATIVE LIVES MAGA! Trump 2024! Proud FORMER Democrat!
Timothy Snyder you forgot your tie!👔 Dress shirt is too large plus I bet you're wearing your Pj bottoms.
Thank heavens for Timothy Snyder. The interviewer is so far out of his depth it’s embarrassing. So parochial and ignorant of the very well trodden path of negative and positive freedom. Snyder is a national treasure.
Silly comment. Isaacson did a good job drawing out Snyder to discuss important aspects of his book.
I liked the interviewer’s questions. It allowed me, with my parochial understanding of freedom, to come to a deeper sense that we are bound together and stronger as a nation because of freedom. I definitely am going to buy this man’s book ‘On Freedom’ 🇺🇸
Hmm..."in a highly critical review Richard Evans wrote that, because of its lack of causal argument, "Snyder's book is of no use", and that Snyder "hasn't really mastered the voluminous literature on Hitler's Germany", which "leads him into error in a number of places" regarding the politics of Nazi Germany."...from Snyder's Wikipedia page. I agree, Snyder, as do many academics, likes to read about himself and be admired.
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Your point being?
It was inevitable that the VP's name would enter the conversation because liberally biased PBS, the News Hour and A&C are in effect, campaigning for her. Everything said needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
Yawn run away to Fox who will tell you the lies you like to hear
Excuse me but the Public Broadcasting Service is not biased & is funded by “We The People” & the only true News Station in the United States Not Corporations owned as Fox ain’t news it’s politically & capitalistic as MSNBC , ABC & all those controlling & not fact based. Chaos created collateral damage & rise of White Supremacy & 45th Dumpster. This was the Land of the Free First Nation People. Columbus didn’t discover shit just brought it with him to couch surf here. Neanderthals go back to your continent & leave us to live Free .
Don’t go to listen to Fox News without lugging along a big bucketful of salt.
It is just another word for information In-form-ation.
Half-truth and lies obfuscate the lack of freedom that is mostly oligarchy in Actuality.