About the Author

Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and bestselling author of How Fascism Works and the new Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future. Drawing on urgent, fact-based analysis, it  warns that democracy depends on a shared reality and collective memory—both under threat by authoritarian forces rewriting history. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian, Stanley also serves on the board of the Prison Policy Initiative.