{"id":41032,"date":"2025-05-02T11:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=41032"},"modified":"2025-05-02T11:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:29:13","slug":"on-tyranny-author-timothy-snyder-interview-with-amanda-lang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/on-tyranny-author-timothy-snyder-interview-with-amanda-lang\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018ON TYRANNY\u2019 AUTHOR TIMOTHY SNYDER: INTERVIEW WITH AMANDA LANG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;On Tyranny&#039; Author Timothy Snyder: Interview with Amanda Lang | WONK\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1GCp3Ki6umw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ppforumca\">Public Policy Forum<\/a>. \u2022 Apr 29, 2025 \u2022 WONK Timothy Snyder is one of America\u2019s most important scholars. While his work has focused on Eastern Europe, Russia and on the Holocaust, more recently he\u2019s written hugely popular books about the nature of tyranny and freedom, including On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom. He recently moved with his family to Canada, where he is a professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs &amp; Public Policy and is in high demand as someone who can help make sense of what is happening in the world today. In this episode of WONK, the historian and author talks to host Amanda Lang about America\u2019s slide toward tyranny, the importance of local media in democracy and what keeps him hopeful for the future. Listen to more episodes of WONK, the Public Policy Forum\u2019s podcast about big ideas in unprecedented times:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbU9xd0s2ODJ4Z3VhRG0zWUFkZngySXF6ODduQXxBQ3Jtc0tscFhtVmt1OFhEYTZBMUQ4OHYtNS1Sb2pqZE1MamwzQXFtYkNpX0x6OXEtQ041R1FyNHhNY3ZiRFJzREN0SThEVGhtbllmejRYNWhGNmIzZTlBYmJqSDVRQUVvY3FIZ1poSGRnUURqWXZCZUg0WVZSOA&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fpod.link%2F1505539532&amp;v=1GCp3Ki6umw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/pod.link\/1505539532<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Policy Forum. \u2022 Apr 29, 2025 \u2022 WONK Timothy Snyder is one of America\u2019s most important scholars. While his work has focused on Eastern Europe, Russia and on the Holocaust, more recently he\u2019s written hugely popular books about the nature of tyranny and freedom, including On Tyranny and The&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/on-tyranny-author-timothy-snyder-interview-with-amanda-lang\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41034,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41032\/revisions\/41034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}