History is Always Open: on the Prospect of Tyranny in America

'Historian Timothy Snyder examines our past (and present) for signs of tyranny in our future - from the spectacle of President Trump's seduction of the media and voters in 2016, to the ways our language and logic are already adapting to an anti-democratic reality - and calls for an intellectual defense of reason, and an IRL defense of each other while there's still time. Snyder is author of the new book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century .'-- This Is Hell! Radio