Media
Articles
New York Times
- We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S. (14 May 2025)
- We Disagree on a Lot. Except the Danger of Anti-CRT Laws (5 Jul 2021)
- Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Fascism’ Claim Too Extreme? (4 Jul 2019)
- Beware of ‘Snakes,’ ‘Invaders’ and Other Fighting Words (16 May 2019)
- If You’re Not Scared About Fascism in the U.S., You Should Be (15 Oct 2018)
- Germany’s Nazi Past Is Still Present (10 Sep 2018)
- Bannon’s Deviant ‘Badge of Honor’ (13 Mar 2018)
- Who Is a Criminal? (1 May 2017)
- Beyond Lying: Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Reality (5 Nov 2016)
- My Parents’ Mixed Messages on the Holocaust (21 Aug 2016):
- Democracy and the Demagogue (12 Oct 2015)
- A Postcard From Paris (8 Jan 2015):
- Detroit’s Drought of Democracy (29 Jul 2014)
- Is the United States a Racial Democracy? (12 Jan 2014)
- Is the Dumb Jock Really a Nerd? (27 Oct 2013):
- Philosopher Kings and Fiscal Cliffs (31 Jan 2013)
- Speech, Lies and Apathy (30 Aug 2012)
- The Practical and the Theoretical (6 May 2012):
- Media and Mistrust: A Response (18 Jul 2011):
- The Ways of Silencing (25 Jun 2011)
The Guardian
- State violence against Black Americans laid the groundwork for fascism (February 6, 2026)
- Why Trump’s ‘anti-woke’ attack on the Smithsonian Matters (with K. Crenshaw) (Aug. 27, 2025)
- The mainstream media has enabled Trump’s war on universities (13 Jun 2025)
- Trump is setting the US on a path to educational authoritarianism (17 Mar 2025)
- We are witnessing the rise of a new Republican ‘Southern Strategy’ (10 Feb 2025)
- Rise against fascism: Why fascists hate universities (5 Sep 2024)
- My life has been defined by genocide of Jewish people. I look on Gaza with concern (11 Nov 2023)
- The US should not normalize Modi’s autocratic and illiberal India at the G20 (8 Sep 2023)
- The racist Florida shooter’s ideology extends to ordinary people (30 Aug 2023)
- Tucker Carlson is not an anti-war populist rebel. He is a fascist (28 Apr 2023)
- Banning ideas and authors is not a ‘culture war’ – it’s fascism (14 Feb 2023)
- What I tell my Black Jewish children about Kanye West, antisemitism and race (20 Jan 2023)
- Buffalo shooting: how white replacement theory keeps inspiring mass murder (15 May 2022)
- The antisemitism animating Putin’s claim to ‘denazify’ Ukraine (26 Feb 2022)
- America is now in fascism’s legal phase (22 Dec 2021)
- For Trump and Modi, ethnic purity is the purpose of power (24 Feb 2020)
- I have lived my life in the shadow of Auschwitz. This is what it has meant (27 Jan 2020)
Project Syndicate
- The End of US Democracy Was All Too Predictable (7 Nov 2024)
- Elon Musk’s Not-so-Hidden Agenda (29 Nov 2022)
- One Hundred Years of Fascism (28 Oct 2022)
- The Genocidal Identity (27 Apr 2022)
- A COVID Genocide in the Americas? (18 Jan 2021)
- Will Fascism Win the US Election? (30 Oct 2020)
- The Fascist Politics of the Pandemic (4 May 2020)
- Our Increasingly Fascist Public Discourse (25 Jan 2019)
Selected Op Eds in Other Venues, national and international
- I left Trump’s America to Teach in Canada. I didn’t expect this from Canadians, Toronto Star (Jan 11, 2026),
- Unsere Vermächtnis, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (November 11, 2025) pdf
- Why I Fled Trump’s America, Zeteo (July 26, 2025) pdf
- The End of Civic Compassion, The New Republic (May 16, 2024)
- American Fascism? El Pais (August 1, 2020)
- Der Wahn der Überlegenheit, Die Zeit (June 6, 2018)
- Critical Race Theory and the 2020 Election, with Elizabeth Cohen (October 20, 2020)
- On Becoming the Enemy, Boston Review (Feb. 2, 2017)
- The War on Thugs, Chronicle of Higher Education (June 10, 2015)
- An die Berliner Demonstranten, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (May 8, 2014)
Selected Radio and TV Interviews
English
- Jason Stanley on Democracy Now!
- The U.S. is now Trumpistan, MSNOW (February 15, 2026)
- Fifth Anniversary of January 6th (Amanpour Show), Jan, 6, 2026
- How Authoritarian States Get Private Citizens to be Complicit in their Crimes, MSNOW (Dec 7, 2025)
- We’re in Trouble: Trump Targets his Political Foes, The Weekend, MSNBC (October 19, 2025)
- The More Aggressive Trump becomes, the More Civil Society Pushes Back, Velshi, MSNBC (October 18, 2025)
- A Coup is Happening, Velshi, MSNBC (October 12, 2025)
- Velshi, MSNBC (September 20, 2025)
- Fascism Scholar: Trump’s America is Textbook Authoritarianism, MSNBC The Weeknight (September 16, 2025)
- Chilling and Harmful to democracy, MSNBC The Weekend (August 10, 2025)
- ICE Ramps up Recruitment and the Job Requirement is MAGA, MSNBC (August 9, 2025)
- Ex-Amb. to Hungary Warns of US Authoritarianism, MSNBC (July 26, 2025)
- Joy Reid Show (June, 2025)
- Why This Yale Professor is Fleeing America (1 Apr 2025)
- Trump comes to Canada amid concerns about rising authoritarianism (6 Apr 2025)
- Masha Gessen & Jason Stanley: Is it Doomsday for U.S. Democracy? (May 2025)
- How the GOP’s War on Public Schools creates the Basis for authoritarianism, MSNBC (September, 2024)
- “How Fascism Works” Author Jason Stanley Plans to Leave the U.S. | Amanpour and Company (11 Jun 2025)
- Erasing History: How Fascism Works, The Chris Hedges Report (March 26, 2025)
- “Why aren’t People more Alarmed?”, MSNBC (October 19, 2024)
- “Ukraine is Facing a Genocide, Amanpour and Company (August 13, 2023)
- American Democracy is Under Attack, MSNBC, (December, 2021)
- “America is Now in Fascism’s Legal Phase”, Amanpour and Company (2021)
- “Did this 2 minute video help incite the January 6 rioters?”, Amanpour and Company (February 11, 2021)
- “The Ten Tactics of Fascism”, Big Think
German
- Jung und Naiv (November 27, 2025)
- Was Darf Man in Deutschland Noch Sagen? ZDF Heute, October 2, 2025 (my interview starts at 40 minutes in)
- US-Medien Unter Druck, Deutschlandfunk, Sept. 17, 2025
- US-Philosoph Stanley warnt vor Trump-Führerkult, ZDF heute journal, Sept. 8, 2025
- US-Professor warnt vor ‘einem weltweiten Kampf gegen die Demokratie’ | DW Nachrichten (17 Apr 2025)
- Markus Lanz vom 8 Mai 2025 (8 May 2025)
- Deutschlandfunk: “Trump sieht die Universitäten als Feind” (26 May 2025)
- Maischberger (3 Jun 2025)
- Demokratie ist schwierig and stark zu gleich, Deutschlandfunk Kulture (June 25, 2024)
Recent Print Interviews/Profiles
- Folha De S. Paulo (2025) (English translation)
- Revista Piauí (2025)
- Haaretz, English and Hebrew (2025)
- Guardian
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Die Zeit
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- Toronto Life
- Le Monde
- Yale News
- El Pais
Older Print Interviews/Profiles
- Folha de Sao Paulo (2018) (2020)
- O Globo (2018)
- Chronicle of Higher Education (2013)
Jason Stanley
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