Professor of Yale who studies the fascism that will flee us to work in Canada | US University

A professor of Yale who studies fascism is leaving the United States to work in a Canadian university due to the current American political climate, which fears is to put the United States at risk of becoming a “fascist dictatorship”.

Jason Stanley, who wrote the 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and thenge, accepted a position at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public.

Stanley he told the daily nousA website of profession of philosophy, who made the decision “to raise my children in a country that does not tilt towards a fascist dictatorship”.

In an interview he said the recent actions of Columbia University prompted him to accept the offer. Last Friday, Columbia ceded to the Trump Administration by accepting a series of requests in order to restore $ 400 million in federal funding. These changes include repressions on protests, an increase in safety power and the “internal revisions” of some academic programs, such as the Department of Middle Eastern studies.

“When I saw the COLUMBIA CHAPTER completely, and I saw this vocabulary of, well, we will work behind the scenes because we will not be targeted to think the pre-Supera way that some universities will be targeted and you do not want to be one of those universities and this is only a losing strategy,” he said.

Stanley added: “You just have to join and say an attack on a university is an attack on all universities. And maybe you lose that struggle, but you will surely lose this if you give up before fighting.”

“Columbia was just such a warning,” he said. “I just worried because I didn’t see a fairly strong reaction in other universities to take sides with Columbia. I see Yale who tries not to be a target. And as I said, this is a losing strategy.”

Stanley said she was not worried about her ability to continue her scholarship in Yale, but the wider climate against universities has played a role. He praised other faculties of Yale for opposing the attacks on their profession and said he wanted to stay and fight with them.

“But how could you speak aloud if you are not an American citizen?” He interrogated. “And if you can’t speak aloud if you are not an American citizen, when they come for American citizens? It’s inevitable.”

The posts on social media spread on Wednesday, noting the alarm played by a scholar of fascism that left the country on its political climate. Nikole Hannah-Jones, journalist and creator of the 1619 project, he wrote On the social media platform Bluesky: “When scholars of self -acting and fascism leave US universities due to the deterioration of the political situation here, we should really worry”.

In a declaration, Yale said that it remains a “home of the members of the world -level faculty dedicated to excellence in the scholarship and teaching”.

“Yale is proud of his community of global faculty who includes teachers who may no longer work at the institution or which contributions to the academic world can continue in another institute at home,” said the university. “The members of the Faculty make decisions on their career for a series of reasons and the university respects all these decisions.”

Stanley recently Written for the Guardian Information on a new directive of the Department of Education according to which teaching on systemic racism and other topics could be reasons for a violation of civil rights, according to the legal interpretations of the Trump administration. Stanley said that this order places the country “on the path of educational authoritarianism”.

He said he thought of leaving the United States in 2017, but that the second Trump administration “decidedly” demonstrated worse than the first. Trump’s profile has also increased since then after the publication of several books on propaganda and fascism. The Munk School is building a program with the opinion that there is an “international struggle against democracy” and offers “very exciting intellectual opportunities”, he said.

“I don’t see him on the run at all,” he said. “I see it how to unite CanadaWhich is a target of Trump, just like Yale is a target of Trump. “

What do you say that a scholar of fascism is leaving the United States right now? Stanley said: “Part of it is that you are leaving because in the end, it is like leaving Germany in 1932, 33, 34. There is a resonance: my grandmother left Berlin with my father in 1939. So it is a family tradition.”