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 “fascist dictatorship”.
Jason Stanley, who wrote the 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, has accepted a position at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Stanley told the Daily Nous, a philosophy profession website, that he made the decision “to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship”.
He said in an interview that Columbia University’s 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 “internal reviews” of some academic programs, like the Middle Eastern studies department.
How is he going to properly study it in Canada? Shouldn’t study it up close and experience it personally with the rest of us Americans?
I don’t think you can hold it against a prominent academic and critic of fascism that he doesn’t 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 aren’t under threat, and probably just as much access to US news as you do.
“volcanologist fleeing eruption to study in nearby Island”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
Well if he ever feels inclined to study the effects of it properly, all he needs to do is try to re-enter and get detained by ICE. Though depending on how bad it gets in the US in the near future, that might be a one-way trip.