Hi, Brian Lairer here.

Up next, Brian Lairor Weekend,

three of our favorite segments from the week,

packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend.

So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m.

on WNYC and WNYC. Good morning again, everyone.

Now we continue our WNYC Centennial series,

A Hundred Years of a Hundred Things. It's thing number 44, 100 years of freedom versus 100 years of

fascism. We'll talk to a very special guest, Yale History Professor Timothy Snyder,

author of seminal books on the subject, including

on tyranny and his new one on freedom. The news hook, of course, is that we just elected a

president who many people, including his former chief of staff and Homeland Security Secretary,

John Kelly, are afraid will govern like a fascist. Here's Kelly in his recent New York

Times interview. The former president is in the far right area. He's certainly an authoritarian

admires people who are dictators.

He has said that.

So he certainly falls into the general definition of a fascist, for sure.

John Kelly said that, as you probably heard us discuss here or other people discuss elsewhere.

Trump's former defense secretary, Mike Esper, echoed that.

So did Trump's former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair, Mark Millie.

But what does the word fascism even mean?

And does the U.S. really have weak enough guardrails that something that deserves the

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