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A Yale professor who studies fascism is leaving the US to work at a Canadian university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of becoming a āfascist dictatorshipā.
Jason Stanley, who wrote the 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, has accepted a position at the University of Torontoās Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Stanley told the Daily Nous, a philosophy profession website, that he made the decision āto raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorshipā.
He said in an interview that Columbia Universityās recent actions moved him to accept the offer. Last Friday, Columbia gave in to the Trump administration by agreeing to a series of demands in order to restore $400m in federal funding. These changes include crackdowns on protests, increased security power and āinternal reviewsā of some academic programs, like the Middle Eastern studies department.
I donāt think you can hold it against a prominent academic and critic of fascism that he doesnāt want to stick around and see what the fascists do to the universities, the philosophy departments, professors like him, and their families. And, believe it or not, here in Canada we have good universities that arenāt under threat, and probably just as much access to US news as you do.