Jason Stanley

Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and a prominent scholar of propaganda, democracy, and authoritarianism. He is the author of several acclaimed books including "How Propaganda Works," "How Fascism Works," and "Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future." Stanley's work examines how language, ideology, and historical memory shape political systems and threaten democratic values. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Review. A leading public intellectual, Stanley combines rigorous philosophical analysis with urgent contemporary concerns about rising authoritarianism and threats to truth and justice.