On Freedom by Timothy Snyder review – an essential manifesto for change

This visionary companion title to 2017’s On Tyranny reclaims the notion of liberty from the right and identifies the tenets of a free societyIn the years since the 2016 US presidential election there has been no more significant critic of the advance of Trump’s form of nihilism than Timothy Snyder. The Yale history professor effectively took a sabbatical from his day job in 2017 to write On Tyranny, a series of 20 lessons derived from his close study of totalitarian regimes in Europe