Erasing History

The fight for the past is the fight for the future. Erasing History is a global call to action from Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley, bestselling author of How Fascism Works — and an urgent investigation into the far right's coordinated effort to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class.

Stanley exposes the true danger of the authoritarian right's attacks on education, identifying their key tactics, funders, and intellectual roots — and showing how schools and universities have become the central battleground where democratic memory is preserved or destroyed. Called "urgent, piercing, and altogether brilliant" by Jonathan M. Metzl, the book traces how fears of a fascist future have moved from hypothetical to present-tense reality, and what democracies must do to defend themselves.

The future depends on what we remember.