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283 - Timothy Snyder: Donald Trump and the End of America

283 - Timothy Snyder: Donald Trump and the End of America

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Timothy Snyder holds the inaugural Temerty Chair in Modern
European History at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public
Policy at the University of Toronto. Snyder’s work has appeared
in forty languages and has received a number of prizes, including
the Emerson Prize in the Humanities. Snyder was a Marshall
Scholar at Oxford, has received the Carnegie and Guggenheim
fellowships, and holds state orders from Estonia, Lithuania, and
Poland. He is researching a family history of nationalism and
finishing a philosophical book about freedom. In this episode,
Robinson and Timothy discuss the future of the United States.
More particularly, they delve into AI, rebellion, conspiracy
theory, our relationship with Russia and Ukraine, Donald Trump,
and more. Timothy’s most recent book is On Freedom (Crown, 2024).

Timothy’s Website: https://timothysnyder.org

On Freedom: https://timothysnyder.org/books/

OUTLINE

00:00 Will the United States Cease to Exist?

13:47 Is Trump Breaking the United States Apart?

21:09 Will AI Prevent Armed Rebellion Against the Government?

30:20 Trump, Conspiracy Theories, and the Politics of Small
Numbers

39:46 Putin Does Not Think Ukraine Is Real

45:57 What Are Trump’s Soft Spots?

50:26 How Tim Organizes His Thought

57:59 Donald Trump and the Superloser

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University, where he is also a JD
candidate in the Law School.