Is it Fascism Yet? M Gessen and Jason Stanley with host Anna Funder

 “I want my kids to grow up in a free country”: Philosopher and professor Jason Stanley on his decision to leave the US

Is it Fascism Yet?Masha Gessen and Jason Stanley with host Anna Funder

Is democracy failing in Australia’s number one ally?

Jason Stanley, an American expert on fascism who is leaving the US to move to Canada, and M Gessen, award-winning journalist who fled authoritarianism in Russia and now warns of echoes in the US, join Anna Funder, acclaimed Australian author of Stasiland and Wifedom, for this timely and chilling discussion. 

How do we even begin to understand what is happening in America right now? Every day a new attack on its Constitution. 

People are routinely abducted by masked men and stuffed into vans. The military has been deployed against protesters in its second largest city. Universities and law firms are punished for not toeing the line. 

And every day there is a new assertion of unitary presidential power. And yet the daily headlines barely make a dent in our consciousness. Are we ill-equipped to understand what is playing out before our eyes?

How far has the US shifted to authoritarianism and is there any way back? And what does this mean for Australia and the rest of the world?

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Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada 🍁 

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