Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada; The Guardian, March 26, 2025

Rachel Leingang , The Guardian; Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada

"A Yale professor who studies fascism is leaving the US to work at a Canadian university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of becoming a “fascist dictatorship”.

Jason Stanley, who wrote the 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, has accepted a position at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

Stanley told the Daily Nous, a philosophy profession website, that he made the decision “to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship”...

Social media posts spread on Wednesday, noting the alarm sounded by a scholar of fascism leaving the country over its political climate. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the journalist and creator of the 1619 Project, wrote on the social media platform Bluesky: “When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave US universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.”"

Big Law’s Big Capitulation; The Bulwark, March 21, 2025

WILLIAM KRISTOL, 

ANDREW EGGER, AND 

JIM SWIFT

, The Bulwark ; Big Law’s Big Capitulation

"In November 2024, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP was recognized by Bloomberg Law in a special report on “Pro Bono Innovators” as a law firm “going above and beyond in delivering pro bono services.”

Yesterday Paul Weiss lived up to this praise. It went above and beyond in delivering pro bono services. The firm will be dedicating, according to the president of the United States, “the equivalent of $40 million in pro bono legal services over the course of President Trump’s term to support the Administration’s initiatives.”

After all, President Trump only has the entire federal government at his disposal to support his initiatives. He needs and deserves the help of Paul Weiss. As the firm explains on its website, “Throughout our firm’s history, we have maintained an unwavering commitment to providing pro bono legal assistance to the most vulnerable members of our society and in support of the public interest.” How could it not step up and chip in to help this vulnerable man, Donald Trump?

The answer, of course, is that the firm could have simply said “no.” It could have refused to be extorted by the president of the United States and contested his March 14 executive order in a court of law.

But it chose capitulation. And then it couched that capitulation under the umbrella of doing “pro bono” work, as if this was a collective agreement to pursue the public interest and not the end product of a shakedown.

I won’t dilate on the details of this capitulation by Paul Weiss. You can read the New York Times’s account if you want to be depressed."