Jason Stanley
American philosopher and author
Jason Stanley is an American philosopher and the author of How Fascism Works and How Propaganda Works. He joined the University of Toronto in 2025 after years at Yale.
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American Born 1969 in Syracuse, United States
About Jason Stanley
Jason Stanley, born in 1969, is an American philosopher. He taught at Yale University from 2013 to 2025, and earlier at Rutgers University, the University of Michigan and Cornell University. In 2025 he took a post at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. In his academic work he is best known for contributions to philosophy of language and epistemology. How Propaganda Works, published in 2015, brings those tools to political philosophy and won a PROSE Award. His book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them is part of our catalog. He has also written for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Guardian.