By uncovering disturbing patterns that are as prevalent today as ever, philosopher Jacob Stanley reveals in _How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them_ that the stuff of politics—charged by rhetoric and myth—can quickly become policy and reality. Only by recognizing fascists politics, he argues, may we resist its most harmful effects and return to democratic ideals. For this conversation Stanley is joined by Harvard associate professor of History Elizabeth Hinton.
Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale 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 is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications. He lives in New Haven with his family.
Elizabeth Hinton is Assistant Professor in the Department History and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Hinton’s research focuses on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the 20th century United States. Her current scholarship considers the transformation of domestic social programs and urban policing after the Civil Rights Movement.