Three Prominent Professors Quit Yale and Will Live in Canada in Protest Against Trump's Policies

Three Yale professors who have been vocal critics of US President Donald Trump have left the Ivy League university to work in Canada, the publication writes GlobalNews.

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The Yale Daily News reported on March 27 that philosophy professor Jason Stanley is moving to a new position at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

He will join his colleagues, former Yale history professors Timothy Snyder and Marcy Shore. Snyder and Shore are married and left the U.S. during the November election.

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Timothy Snyder is the author of On Freedom and On Tyranny, which examine the authoritarian dictatorship in Russia. In 2022, Snyder taught a course on Ukrainian history at Yale University, The Making of Modern Ukraine. All 23 lectures are available on the YouTube streaming platform and have received hundreds of thousands of views. Snyder has also consistently advocated for Ukraine at many reputable international venues.

Professor Jason Stanley told Daily Nous, a professional philosophy publication, that while he enjoyed his time at Yale, he decided to leave because of the political climate in the United States. He wants to raise his children in a country “that is not moving toward a fascist dictatorship.”

Stanley told The Guardian that his father and grandmother fled Berlin in 1939.

In an interview with the British publication, the philosophy professor explained that recent events at Columbia University played a significant role in his decision to leave for Canada. These included the decision to comply with government orders to suppress student protests and to conduct an internal review of the Middle East Studies department to avoid losing $400 million in federal funding.

Columbia University, he said, had completely capitulated to the government.

"It's a losing strategy," Stanley said.

His departure comes weeks after U.S. immigration authorities detained Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil at his New York home for his role in pro-Palestinian protests on campus last spring.

Khalil is currently incarcerated at the Louisiana Detention Center. He has permanent legal status in the United States. His wife, a U.S. citizen, was eight months pregnant at the time of his arrest.

“What happened with Columbia was a clear warning,” Stanley concluded, adding, “I see Yale trying not to be a target. And as I said, that’s a losing strategy.”

Yale has not commented directly on the departures of some of its faculty members or the situation at Columbia. However, in late January, Yale President Maury MacInnis told Yale News that the university was “limiting public statements and prioritizing working with legislators behind the scenes.”

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“I would rather focus on the work that really matters to Yale,” she told the publication, noting that the most effective approach is to “continue to advocate for the mission of higher education with the legislators who will ultimately determine policy and funding priorities.”

Yale University responded to the situation by creating various working groups to analyze Trump's executive orders and protect the interests of the university, Yale News reported.

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