The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike those faced by the Europeans of the 20th century, who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Can we learn from their experience?
Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.
Dr. Snyder will be in conversation with Smita Narula, distinguished lecturer at Hunter College and interim director of the Human Rights Program at Roosevelt House.
For more information on this event, please go to:
https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/calendar/data/2018-02-21-on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-the-twentieth-century
This event is part of the James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program and Foreign Affairs.
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