Jason Stanley
Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Before coming to Yale in 2013, he was Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Stanley is the author of Know How; Languages in Context; Knowledge and Practical Interests, which won the American Philosophical Association book prize; and How Propaganda Works, which won the PROSE Award for Philosophy from the Association of American Publishers. He writes about authoritarianism, propaganda, free speech, mass incarceration, and other topics for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Review, The Guardian, Project Syndicate and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications.
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Should we worry about fascist politics? Philosopher Jason Stanley plays devil’s advocate.
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Propaganda urges you to mobilize towards something while concealing from you things that you reasonably should think and consider.
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How do fascist leaders take hold? Lying to a whole nation, and having them believe you, is just one tenth of it.
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Free market ideology uses democratic vocabulary as propaganda, obscuring a non-democratic reality.