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Two prominent American scholars on fascism & authoritarianism, Timothy Snyder & Jason Stanley, have recently moved from Yale to the University of Toronto. Stanley: “the primary reason was the deteriorating political situation in the United States”.

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Jason KottkeMOD

From The Guardian:

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".

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Jason KottkeMOD

Historian Marci Shore is also moving from Yale to the University of Toronto. From the Yale Daily News:

"I know Jason Stanley very well, he's been one of my most important interlocutors on political, historical and philosophical questions for the better part of a decade now," Shore wrote to the News on Wednesday. "I am thrilled that he'll be joining us in Toronto, but also heartbroken at what's happened to my own country."

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