America Is Entering a Dangerous Moment — with Timothy Snyder

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

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🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Historian Timothy Snyder joins Scott Galloway to put the current political moment in historical context — and to explain why it should not be dismissed as abstract or theoretical. They discuss recent killings during federal immigration operations, how propaganda attempts to overwrite reality, and why video evidence and “small truths” matter in resisting authoritarian power. Tim also examines the role of corporations, the limits of political parties, and what history shows about protest, coalition-building, and civic action. Algebra of Happiness: how to give your parents comfort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:22.5	Episode 381.
0:24.0	3.1 is the country code for Serbia.
0:25.6	1981, NASA launched the first space shuttle.
0:28.8	What did the vegetable fetishes say when they landed on Earth?
0:32.9	We come in peas.
0:36.5	Things are getting desperate here.
0:38.8	Go, go, go!
0:44.3	Welcome to the 381st episode of the Prop G-Pod.
0:51.6	What's happening?
0:52.3	I'm back from an exciting week in Davos. I'm kind of,
0:56.7	you know, back in the swing of things, and then I get back and what do we know? We encounter
1:01.5	some pretty upsetting events in America that are sort of contrary to the reason that this country
1:09.6	has founded. Specifically, America,
1:11.8	people say it was founded because we didn't want taxes. Now, basically, America, this experiment
1:15.5	was an attempt to reject the notion that we can be abused by a monarch, that there is
1:21.8	co-equal branches of government, that everyone is accountable, and that people have certain rights.
1:27.0	And we outlined those rights in this document called the Constitution.
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