Understanding Democracy's Fragility

Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and author of Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning and On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.

• Democracy has to be an ongoing activity — not a waiting game for the next election cycle.
• How fragile a democratic republic can be against the concentrated efforts of would-be tyrants — and that the United States is not immune to their strategies.
• The small actions we can take every day to ensure we’re doing our part to maintain an open and free society.
• How to consume information critically in a “post-fact” world.
• Recognize the scary parallels between historic catastrophes and current events.
• And much more...

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/585

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