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Timothy Snyder, the Yale historian behind On Tyranny, turns from warning about authoritarianism to examining the idea it’s supposedly the opposite of. His argument is that freedom in America has been reduced to the absence of restraint, when the harder and more useful version of it is the presence of real capacity — health, education, security — to actually live the life you’d choose. He draws on philosophers, dissidents he’s spoken with directly, and his own experience of American exceptionalism to make the case that getting freedom wrong isn’t abstract; it’s the crisis already underway.
