240 pages
English language
Published 2018
How fascism works
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them is a 2018 nonfiction book by Jason Stanley, the former Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Since 2025 he has been the Bissell-Heyd Chair in American Studies at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, with a cross-appointment in philosophy. His move to Canada has been widely reported as motivated by growing concerns over political interference in U.S. universities, restrictions on academic freedom, and his desire to raise his children in a more stable democratic environment. Stanley, whose parents were refugees of Nazi Germany, describes strategies employed by fascist regimes, which includes normalizing the "intolerable". Features of this are already evident, according to Stanley, in the politics of the United States, the Philippines, Brazil, Russia, and Hungary. The book was reissued in 2020 with a new preface in which Stanley describes how global events …
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them is a 2018 nonfiction book by Jason Stanley, the former Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Since 2025 he has been the Bissell-Heyd Chair in American Studies at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, with a cross-appointment in philosophy. His move to Canada has been widely reported as motivated by growing concerns over political interference in U.S. universities, restrictions on academic freedom, and his desire to raise his children in a more stable democratic environment. Stanley, whose parents were refugees of Nazi Germany, describes strategies employed by fascist regimes, which includes normalizing the "intolerable". Features of this are already evident, according to Stanley, in the politics of the United States, the Philippines, Brazil, Russia, and Hungary. The book was reissued in 2020 with a new preface in which Stanley describes how global events have substantiated his concern that fascist rhetoric is showing up in politics and policies around the world. How Fascism Works received renewed attention in March 2025 when author Jason Stanley expressed his opinion that the US is transitioning into becoming a fascist dictatorship and that he was leaving the country to move to Canada.
