“Democracy is always really hard”: Historian Snyder on freedom in US, Europe and beyond

Radio Prague International - Topic «Politics»

Yale historian Timothy Snyder was in Prague last week at the Plus and Václav Havel Library conference Borders of (Un)Freedom. The next day, he was interviewed by Czech Radio journalist Jan Bumba. They discussed topics ranging from the Republican nomination of Donald Trump as presidential candidate; how a Trump election might impact Europe and Russia’s war on Ukraine; and Snyder’s soon-to-be published book On Freedom. This is an edited version of that interview.