77. Jason Stanley: Erasing History

Bestselling author Jason Stanley started teaching at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy as part of a small exodus of former Yale professors, all experts in authoritarianism, who left the United States in light of the Trump administration’s attacks on civil liberties. In the United States and elsewhere across the globe, democracy faces new threats from authoritarian movements. To understand this assault, we must understand the lessons of our past. In Erasing History, Stanley exposes the true danger of authoritarianism’s attacks on institutions of education, historically places of critical inquiry and preservation of common memory. He’ll illustrate that hearts and minds are won in our schools and universities—places that democratic societies across the world are now ill-prepared to help defend against fascism.

Moderated by David Moscrop.

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