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April 13, 2026 - Timothy Snyder, Boston Youth Poet Laureate Ailin Sha, and Bill Barclay
Historian and bestselling author Timothy Snyder joins The Culture Show to discuss how democracies weaken, how authoritarianism rises, and what freedom actually requires. Snyder, the inaugural Temerty Chair in Modern European History at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto, will be honored on April 26 at the Literary Lights Gala.
Boston Youth Poet Laureate Ailin Sha joins us as our National Poetry Month celebration continues. Originally from Beijing and now a first-year student at Harvard College, Sha writes about migration, language, and belonging —…
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