Jason Stanley
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On the uses and disadvantages of historical comparisons for life
How can intense description of what is irreducibly particular help us to extract elements that are universal? Parallels between the child separations at the US–Mexico border and the experiences of Holocaust survivors prompt historian Marci Shore to...
Jason Stanley
On the uses and disadvantages of historical comparisons for life | Eurozine
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'Marking Time' And Making Art In Confinement
An exhibition at MoMa PS1 features work created by currently or formerly incarcerated artists and their family members. Curator Nicole R. Fleetwood knows what it's like to love someone on the inside.
"Strongmen" Book Talk with Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Jason Stanley
What is the playbook used by authoritarians from Mussolini to the present day? What can we learn from the past? Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the “strongma...
Jason Stanley
Yesterday, I had the privilege of being in discussion with my friend and colleague @ruthbenghiat about her essential new book Strongmen , for the Museum of Jewish Heritage. It was an extraordinarily rich discussion.
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The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism
Recent debates have centered on whether it’s appropriate to compare Trump to European fascists. But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.
Using the Law to Fight Epidemics, for Better and Worse
In “American Contagions,” John Fabian Witt writes about how jurisprudence has influenced public health, from promoting the social good to compounding existing inequalities.
Twenty Lessons on Fighting Tyranny from the Twentieth Century
Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. From across the fearful twentieth century, here are...
How to Live With Dying - The American Scholar
Before I could accept mortality, I had to stop running from it
Pressure Builds on Biden to Knock Down ‘Every Mile’ of Trump’s Wall
The monument to nativism spans 371 miles. Border communities and activists consider it “an attack on our heritage and our identity.” But Biden hasn’t pledged to uproot it.
Jason Stanley
Here, I’m interviewed by @attackerman about what a future Biden admin should do with the border wall
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Trump Escalated Obama’s War in Yemen
New statistics show that Trump launched 231 airstrikes or ground raids in Yemen during his first four years. Obama launched 255 in all eight of his.
White House science office takes credit for 'ending' pandemic as infections mount
It’s the latest inaccurate claim from the administration on the severity of the pandemic.
‘Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands’ by Hazel V. Carby wins the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
‘Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands’ by Hazel V. Carby is named as the winner of the eighth Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, the British Academy’s non-fiction book prize.
As Election Nears, Trump Makes a Final Push Against Climate Science
The administration is imposing new limits on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that would undercut action against global warming.
Jason Stanley
As Election Nears, Trump Makes a Final Push Against Climate Science - The New York Times
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Brett Kavanaugh Signals He’s Open to Stealing the Election for Trump
Justice Kavanaugh cast doubt on the validity of mail ballots and endorsed a theory too extreme for the Bush v. Gore majority.
U.S. Agency Targets Its Own Journalists' Independence
In a late-night move to assert editorial control, the CEO of the U.S. international broadcasting agency rescinded a rule which established a "firewall" between the newsroom and political appointees.
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Here is the CNN appearance with @brianstelter that the President's law firm of Jones Day is citing as something of an outrage. It has been viewed almost 1,000,000 times.
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CNN won't run pro-Trump ad warning Biden will raise taxes on middle class
CNN has informed the largest outside group supporting President Trump’s reelection that it will not run one of its new ads, saying the ad is false because it warns Democratic nominee Joe Biden will raise taxes on the middle class and implies that
Jason Stanley
Wow. My CNN appearance is being used in a letter by Jones Day, the President's law firm, to defend his misleading ad.
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What the D.C. Brunch Says About Young Urban Elite
It’s quite a hangover.
Jason Stanley
“The bottomless mimosa is the blood of Christ” is one of the better lines in recent prose
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The Threat of Fascism Won’t End with Trump - The Bullet
It will take sustained progressive political pressure now and into the future to dismantle the powerful fascist forces that threaten our democracy.
How free market ideology perverts the vocabulary of democracy – Jason Stanley | Aeon Ideas
Free market ideology masks the ways in which corporations limit freedom, perverting democratic vocabulary into propaganda
Jason Stanley
Wondering how fans of an authoritarian President and an authoritarian political party can claim the vocabulary of “liberty”? It’s because they think freedom amounts to their freedom to buy and sell things. In so doing, they sacrifice their freedom.
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