{"id":15482,"date":"2025-04-11T14:31:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=15482"},"modified":"2025-04-18T03:42:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T03:42:42","slug":"2025-04-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2025-04-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasing History: How Fascism Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/humanists.org_2025_04_13_erase_history_stanley.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15483\"\/><figcaption>Prof. Jason Stanley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>11 a.m., April 13, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we watch and discuss a video of Jason Stanley, as he gives proper context to what fascism means and how the Trump administration\u2019s second term could really mean the completion of the American fascist state.<\/p>\n<p>Host Chris Hedges spoke with him on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, recorded on March 26.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Stanley is an American philosopher who is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. 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