Episode 33: Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works
Show Notes Jason Stanley is Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He formerly specialized in the philosophy of language, but has recently changes his focus to populism and politics, with his books How Propaganda Works, published in 2015, and How Fascism Works, which hits bookstores this month. The chapters of the book, each describing a characteristic of fascism are: 1. The Mythic Past 2. Propaganda 3. Anti-Intellectualism 4. Unreality 5. Hierarchy 6. Victimhood 7. Law and Order 8. Sexual Anxiety 9. Sodom and Gomorrah 10. Arbeit Macht Frei What sets Jason's book apart from books by Albright, Snyder, etc? 1:05 Differentiating Fascism from totalitarianism 3:02 Why are some democracies strong? 6:22 A critique of John Stuart Mill 12:00 Linguistics is like behavioral economics 16:12 Race and politics 17:54 What can professors do? 26:05 ... See the full list of episodes of Half Hour of Heterodoxy >> Transcript This is a transcript of this episode.