Jason Stanley

Biography

Jason Stanley is a Distinguished Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics and the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. 

He received his PhD in 1995 from the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Before joining Yale in 2013, he was a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University.

Prof. Stanley is the author of The Politics of Language, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, Know How, Language in Context, Knowledge and Practical Interests, which won the American Philosophical Association Book Award, and How Propaganda Works, which won the PROSE Award for Philosophy from the Association of American Publishers. 

He has written about authoritarianism, propaganda, free speech, mass incarceration, and other topics for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Review, The Guardian, Project Syndicate, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.