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Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"

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Published: December 24, 2025 17:29

The other day I experienced an inhuman assault on Christmas – an AI carol. The machine's inability to understand the carol's message of love made it eerie. Basic cultural forms like holiday ritual and music are weakened under the assault of algorithms.…

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Published: December 21, 2025 21:42

As a historian I've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents. And I just have to say that aside from being obviously illegal and clearly suggestive of some major crime, this “redaction” business is not a position in which serious…

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Published: December 21, 2025 21:37

In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity. Do listen. I wrote about the history here:…

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Published: December 19, 2025 14:41

There are a lot of stories like this that seem not to effect the overall narrative of the war for some odd reason. https://www.theconcis.com/p/novorossiysk-was-russias-last-sanctuary?r=8rjoe&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay&triedRedirect=true

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Published: December 19, 2025 02:03

This catches something really important. The risk is less that this crew changes the regime and more that while trying to do so they cash out the whole thing. Which is one more powerful reason why resistance is patriotic. [contains quote post or other…

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Published: December 18, 2025 23:46

It’s possible that they didn’t think of this and also possible that they did and want it to happen or don’t care. The one foreign policy issue these people claimed to care about was communist China but they have essentially given up — it’s all too hard for…

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Published: December 18, 2025 23:14

Tomorrow on "Thinking Live" I'll be speaking with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social about the state of the war in Ukraine, the actual battlefield situation, and prospects for a ceasefire. December 19th, 10am ET. snyder.substack.com https://snyder.substack.com