‘For Our Freedom and Yours’: Ukraine, Europe, and the US Election

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies Emeritus at Oxford and a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. His latest book, Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, was awarded the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize. (November 2024)

Timothy Snyder is the Levin Professor of History at Yale, where he also serves as faculty adviser to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Among his many books are: Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin (2010), Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (2015), and, most recently, On Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary (2020); a new graphic edition of his On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, illustrated by Nora Krug, is published in October 2021.


Nataliya Gumenyuk is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian journalist and author. She is the founder and CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Lab (PIJL) which promotes constructive discussion around complex social issues, and a co-founder of The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies, which documents war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Russia. She is the author of The Lost Island: Tales From The Occupied Crimea (2020) and The Maidan Tahrir (2015), and co-author of The Scariest Days of My Life: The Dispatches of the Reckoning Project (2023).