Jacob Stanley: How Fascism Works

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 fascist 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.

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