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Vermont Conversation: Scholar Timothy Snyder on Covid, health and freedom - vtdigger.org

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A Covid-19 testing site in Winooski in June. Timothy Snyder’s new book criticizes the national response to the pandemic. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger

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Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale and a world renowned scholar of authoritarianism. His 2017 international bestseller, On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century, is a roadmap to how autocrats rise and democracies fall. “Post-truth,” he writes, “is pre-fascism.” Snyder’s newest book is Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary. He describes his near-death experience following a missed medical diagnosis last year, and he eviscerates America’s failed coronavirus response. He calls on us to rethink the fundamental connection between health and freedom. “Other countries look at us and for the first time ever, they sincerely pity us, but also wonder, how can you have so much wealth … and kill so many people?” He observes, “We’re at a tipping point. To say that it can’t go on like this is an understatement. Things could get much worse than they are — and they might.”

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