ON FREEDOM | By Timothy Snyder | Crown | 345 pp. | $32 A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 13, 2024, Page 21 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Taking Liberty.

Matej Drlicka, sacked as Slovak National Theater chief by Robert Fico, called on the European Union to protect cultural and artistic freedom.

Freedom House, for example, whose annual rankings measure democracy and freedom, calls Armenia “partly free,” albeit with a steady increase over the past decade.

The 101-page report, “From Bad to Worse: The Deterioration of Media Freedom in Greece,” documents the hostile environment for independent media and journalists since the New Democracy ...

The U.S. ranks below 80 other countries in the 2024 Academic Freedom Index, scoring 0.68 out of 1.00. Over 600 university presidents released a statement defending academic freedom against ...