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South China Morning Post
11-07-2025
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
A warning from the past about the United States of today
There is much to be thankful for this year if you are one of the academic bosses who run the University of Toronto. You might especially appreciate the return of Donald Trump to the White House, even as he has threatened to annex your country and make it America's 51st state. In March, it was revealed that three superstar academics and specialists on fascism at Yale – the historians and couple Marci Shore and Timothy Snyder, and the philosopher Jason Stanley – have taken up senior positions at the premier university in my hometown in an act of self-exile. In an emotional interview with The New York Times titled, 'We study fascism, and we're Leaving the US', the trio said: 'The lesson of 1933 is you get out sooner rather than later. My colleagues and friends, they were walking around and saying, 'We have checks and balances … 'And I thought my God, we're like people on the Titanic saying our ship can't sink. We've got the best ship. We've got the strongest ship. We've got the biggest ship. Our ship can't sink. And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can't sink.' Shore is the author of The Taste of Ashes and translator of Michał Głowinski's Holocaust memoir, The Black Seasons. Snyder wrote such bestsellers as Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, and The Road to Unfreedom. Stanley wrote the influential How Propaganda Works as well as How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. In How Fascism Works, Stanley wrote: 'What normalisation does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been.' Richard Cullen, a friend and law lecturer at the University of Hong Kong, has reached a similar conclusion about America. Writing in an Australian publication, he warned: 'Washington is savagely attacking its own leading universities to shut down basic operating freedoms; rounding up and heavily punishing – and imprisoning – students for expressing their views over the Gaza genocide and related matters; drawing up plans to cancel valid student visas en masse on political grounds; and organising mass deportations, with enthusiastic violence and scant or zero due process.'
New York Times
28-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Canada's Trump-Fueled Brain Gain
A year ago, when Timothy Snyder and his wife, Marci Shore, both prominent Yale historians, moved to Canada after being recruited to the University of Toronto, they thought it would be a fun adventure. 'I was trying to have a positive midlife crisis,' Professor Snyder said in an interview. By the time they had settled into their new home, the mood in the progressive academic circles that feted them back in New Haven, Conn., was rapidly darkening after the election of Donald J. Trump in November. The Trump administration has put U.S. colleges in its cross hairs, accusing some of cradling haters of America. It has launched policies that threaten to expel international students and jeopardize funding and academic freedoms. Professors Snyder and Shore, along with Jason Stanley, a Yale philosophy professor who also moved to Toronto, have in recent months become outspoken about the Trump administration. They published a widely shared New York Times video opinion piece titled, 'We Study Fascism, and We're Leaving the U.S.' At the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, they joined Brian Rathbun and Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, international relations professors who made a similar move last year from the University of Southern California. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
22-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Move on from a bad workplace
Re Zoe Williams's article (MI6 has appointed its first female leader. What took it so long?, 16 June), after being told by my (new, younger, male) boss that I was 'motherly' and 'aggressive', I handed in my notice. Shame I had to leave the job I loved, but better that than working for dickheads. If they're not interested in you, it is not worth trying to change them from within. Move on to where you are appreciated; good workplaces do JacksonLondon • While not wishing to doubt the sincerity of Marci Shore, who said 'The lesson of 1933 is you get out sooner rather than later', and her fellow professors, should they not be anticipating the lesson of 1938 and move further away from the US than Canada (Why a professor of fascism left the US: 'The lesson of 1933 is – you get out', 16 June)?Robert Arrowsmith Blackburn, Lancashire • I am a retired teacher, and one morning I asked one of my students: 'How are you this morning?'. 'I'm good,' she replied. 'Don't you mean 'I'm well?'' 'Yeah, I'm well good.' Language evolves, and changes, and the younger generation is always one step (at least) ahead of us (Letters, 20 June).Iain FentonLancaster • 'When did cooks start pan‑frying rather than just frying?' asks Dr Mary Oldham (Letters, 18 June). About the same time that they started oven MaltBythorn, Cambridgeshire • 'What else can you fry in?' asks Dr Mary Oldham. A deep fat fryer. Or an air EvansEarby, LancashireError in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
The Guardian
22-06-2025
- General
- The Guardian
Move on from a bad workplace
Re Zoe Williams's article (MI6 has appointed its first female leader. What took it so long?, 16 June), after being told by my (new, younger, male) boss that I was 'motherly' and 'aggressive', I handed in my notice. Shame I had to leave the job I loved, but better that than working for dickheads. If they're not interested in you, it is not worth trying to change them from within. Move on to where you are appreciated; good workplaces do JacksonLondon While not wishing to doubt the sincerity of Marci Shore, who said 'The lesson of 1933 is you get out sooner rather than later', and her fellow professors, should they not be anticipating the lesson of 1938 and move further away from the US than Canada (Why a professor of fascism left the US: 'The lesson of 1933 is – you get out', 16 June)?Robert Arrowsmith Blackburn, Lancashire I am a retired teacher, and one morning I asked one of my students: 'How are you this morning?'. 'I'm good,' she replied. 'Don't you mean 'I'm well?'' 'Yeah, I'm well good.' Language evolves, and changes, and the younger generation is always one step (at least) ahead of us (Letters, 20 June).Iain FentonLancaster 'When did cooks start pan‑frying rather than just frying?' asks Dr Mary Oldham (Letters, 18 June). About the same time that they started oven MaltBythorn, Cambridgeshire 'What else can you fry in?' asks Dr Mary Oldham. A deep fat fryer. Or an air EvansEarby, Lancashire Have an opinion on anything you've read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.
South China Morning Post
18-06-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
US brain drain set to gather pace as academics seek posts outside Trump's America
A brain drain hitting American universities is expected to gather pace before the start of the new academic year as funding cuts and attacks on academic freedom have led increasing numbers of academics to question whether they wish to stay in the United States. Advertisement Last month, the historians Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore, who are married to each other, announced their departure from Yale University to join the University of Toronto, citing concerns over the direction of American democracy during Donald Trump's presidency Meanwhile, professors who face funding cuts and uncertain futures have quietly signalled their availability within academic circles—and are now fielding unexpectedly high-paying offers from institutions abroad. David Lesperance, an immigration and tax specialist at the Canadian law firm Lesperance & Associates, said he was helping 'high-profile US tenured professors and top-level researchers' explore relocation options in Canada, Australia and Europe, with many hoping to begin new roles by September. Advertisement 'Many of them work in medical research, AI, physics, and computer science — these are the hot ticket fields right now,' Lesperance said. He said one American client was weighing offers from Britain, Australia and China. 'He's passionate about his research, and the decision will come down to which place offers the best funding, lab support and staffing,' Lesperance said.
