Hello and welcome to the G0 World podcast.

This is where you can find extended versions of my interviews on public television.

I'm Ian Bremmer and today, election day is fast approaching in the most unusual,

may well be consequential presidential race in modern U.S. history.

My guest today, historian Tim Snyder. He's out with a new book that argues for reframing

how we as Americans and everyone else, frankly, think of freedom.

The book you'll be shocked to learn is called On Freedom.

We'll be having a lofty ivory tower debate on philosophical principles.

No, no, actually, we have an election coming up in just weeks.

Days, if you want to count that way, you are free to do so.

So how is freedom on the ballot in November?

And what kind of freedoms should Americans be looking for?

There's plenty to get into, so let's do it.

Here's my conversation with historian, Tim Snyder.

Tim Snyder. Tim Snyder. Really great to have you on the show.

Glad to be with you.

Congrats on the new book on Freedom.

That's certainly what we want to spend most of our time talking about.

I'm thinking back to when you and I were graduate students decades ago.

At that point, there was a lot of talk about freedom from, freedom from, you know,

autocracy, freedom from communism, freedom from living behind the iron curtain. You suggest in this book that now we should be thinking differently about freedoms, at least those of us living in places

that are

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