LESSON 1: Do Not Obey In Advance

Why HN readers recommended it

Linked in political threads as a short, accessible companion to Snyder's book and as a reminder not to obey in advance.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Timothy Snyder

Topic

resisting authoritarianism

Format

lecture

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2023–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• I would go spend a couple of days on Yale history professor Timothy Snyder reading his books and then watch him on YouTube. Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig is also a major academic in this area. Their respective relevant books are "The Road to Unfreedom" …

• Could not agree more! I also recommend the short Youtube series Snyder recorded before the release of the graphic edition: Lesson 1: [VIDEO] Full Playlist: [LINK]

• He has a new book On Freedom , too. I haven't read it yet, but I have watched him give excellent talks on youtube, which reference it. I believe his core thesis in On Freedom is that America has focused on negative freedom, when what …