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What do we mean when we talk about freedom?

12 October 2024

9:00 AM

12 October 2024

9:00 AM

On Freedom Timothy Snyder

Bodley Head, pp.368, 25

When the Yale historian and bestselling author Timothy Snyder was 14, his parents took him to Costa Rica, a country lauded for its conservation of natural resources that is rated freer and happier than the United States. He recalls feeling liberated and unfettered as he hiked in cloud forests with his brothers, seeing monkeys, sloths and spectacular birds.

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