At Yale University, Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy. He is the author of five books, including How Propaganda Works, which won the Association of American Publishers' Prose Prize for Philosophy, and How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. He is a member of the Prison Policy Initiative's board of directors and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, and the London Guardian on topics such as propaganda, free speech, mass incarceration, democracy, and authoritarianism.