University hires three prominent professors worried about Trump

United States President Donald Trump’s re-election has spurred several high-profile Yale professors to leave New Haven for jobs at the University of Toronto (UofT), writes Allison Smith for TorontoToday.

Bestselling author of On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom Timothy Snyder and historian Marci Shore are on leave from Yale and joined UofT earlier this year. Snyder and Shore, who are married, will begin teaching courses at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy this fall. Shore told TorontoToday they plan to stay at UofT “for the long term”. UofT began recruiting her and Snyder two years ago, but Shore said: “Of course our American catastrophe played a role in our final decision”.

Meanwhile, Jason Stanley, the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, is also taking a position at the Munk School and UofT’s philosophy department, citing the Trump administration’s recent targeting of post-secondary institutions. Stanley told Daily Nous, a news publication about the philosophy profession, his “decision was entirely because of the political climate in the United States”.
Full report on the TorontoToday site