In Erasing History, How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, Yale professor of philosophy Jason Stanley exposes the true danger of the authoritarian right’s attacks on education, identifies their key tactics and funders, and traces their intellectual roots. He illustrates how fears of a fascist future have metastasized, from hypothetical threat to present reality. And with his “urgent, piercing, and altogether brilliant” (Johnathan M. Metzi, author of What We’ve Become) insight, he illustrates that hearts and minds are won in our schools and universities—places that democratic societies across the world are now ill-prepared to defend against the fascist assault currently underway.
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Jason Stanley is an American philosopher who is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He has accepted an appointment at the University of Toronto starting in fall 2025. He is the author of six books, including How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them and How Propaganda Works. Stanley is a member of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School and serves on the board of the Prison Policy Initiative. He writes frequently about authoritarianism, democracy, propaganda, free speech, and mass incarceration for outlets including the New York Times, The Guardian, the New Republic, and Project Syndicate.
“A searing confrontation with the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress.”
“Timely, urgent and essential.”