Yale professors flee U.S. over fascism concerns

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‘Get out sooner rather than later’: Yale professors flee U.S. over fascism concerns

Yale professors Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley have made their careers studying authoritarianism across the globe. Now, they’re sharing their concerns about the rise of fascism in the U.S, where they say the situation has become so dire that they have decided to leave the country and their posts at the prestigious university to teach in Canada, warning that America is facing a “democratic emergency.”

“We’re like people on the Titanic, saying ‘Our ship can’t sink. We’ve got the best ship. We’ve got the strongest ship,’” Shore said in a new video essay for The New York Times. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

In the video, Shore also referred to Nazi Germany and said the “lesson of 1933 is you get out sooner rather than later.”

The high-profile professors’ exits come as President Donald Trump continues his crackdown on higher education. In March, the Department of Education opened investigations into dozens of universities across the country over the schools’ diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

In recent weeks, the Trump administration has also cut funding for several elite colleges over allegations of antisemitism following a wave of pro-Palestinian protests last year. Earlier this week, the administration announced it would cut another $450 million in grants to Harvard University. That’s on top of $2.2 billion that was previously frozen.


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