{"id":148488,"date":"2025-09-22T11:34:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=148488"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:34:35","slug":"were-experts-in-fascism-were-leaving-the-u-s-nyt-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=148488","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Experts in Fascism. We\u2019re Leaving the U.S. | NYT Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IXR9PByA9SY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Legal residents of the United States sent to foreign prisons without due process. Students detained after voicing their opinions. Federal judges threatened with impeachment for ruling against the administration\u2019s priorities. In this Opinion video, Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley, all professors at Yale and experts in authoritarianism, explain why America is especially vulnerable to a democratic backsliding \u2014 and why they are leaving the United States to take up positions at the University of Toronto. Professor Stanley is leaving the United States as an act of protest against the Trump administration\u2019s attacks on civil liberties. \u201cI want Americans to realize that this is a democratic emergency,\u201d he said. Professor Shore, who has spent two decades writing about the history of authoritarianism in Central and Eastern Europe, is leaving because of what she sees as the sharp regression of American democracy. \u201cWe\u2019re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can\u2019t sink,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can\u2019t sink.\u201d She borrows from political and apolitical Slavic motifs and expressions, arguing that the English language does not fully capture the democratic regression in this American moment. Professor Snyder\u2019s reasons are more complicated. Primarily, he\u2019s leaving to support his wife, Professor Shore, and their children, and to teach at a large public university in Toronto, a place he says can host conversations about freedom. At the same time, he shares the concerns expressed by his colleagues and worries that those kinds of conversations will become ever harder to have in the United States. \u201cI did not leave Yale because of Donald Trump or because of Columbia or because of threats to Yale \u2014 but that would be a reasonable thing to do, and that is a decision that people will make,\u201d he wrote in a Yale Daily News article explaining his decision to leave. Their motives differ but their analysis is the same: ignoring or downplaying attacks on the rule of law, the courts and universities spells trouble for our democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal residents of the United States sent to foreign prisons without due process. Students detained after voicing their opinions. Federal judges threatened with impeachment for ruling against the administration\u2019s priorities. In this Opinion video, Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley, all professors at Yale and experts in authoritarianism, explain why America is especially vulnerable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1334,4165,755,1247],"class_list":["post-148488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-other-stuff","tag-donald-trump","tag-political-corruption","tag-politics","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/were-experts-in-fascism-were-lea.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":145123,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=145123","url_meta":{"origin":148488,"position":0},"title":"Trump\u2019s New Information Empire: The Digital Takeover of America?","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"21\/01\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"On January 20, 2025, the world watched as Donald Trump was sworn in\u2014again\u2014as the 47th President of the United States. 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