Some American scientists decide to move to Canada. This is related to the takeover of power by the administration of Donald Trump. Among them is the well -known historian Professor Timothy Snyder and his wife Marci Shore. They are to work at the University of Toronto.
Some people from the world of science in the United States move to Canada In connection with the governments of the new presidential administration Donald Trump. Among them is the historian Timothy Snyder specializing in the history of Central Europe and nationalism, who will lecture at the University of Toronto.
Timothy Snyder “is currently on vacation from his position of History professor at the University of Yale, he will start lecturing at Munk School in the academic year 2025-2026” – this message appears on the Munk School of Global Affairs website, the Academic Center at the University of Toronto.
Snyder is the author of the books “On tyranny. Twenty lessons from the twentieth century” and “Road to slavery. Russia. Europe. America”, in which he describes how Russia It works to destroy Western countries, using Donald Trump. He also speaks Polish fluently.
“American disaster”
In January this year, Snyder was attacked in social media by the US Vice President JD Vance, who wrote that “the fact that this person is a professor Yale is embarrassed.” Vance in this way commented on the essay of Snyder “Pete HegeSeth: Short course – 13 steps to national destruction.” He treated Trump's nomination by the Secretary of Defense of the USA. The official finally took this position.
HegeSeth is one of the scandal figures that has recently exploded in the USA. The editor -in -chief of “The Atlantic” Jeffrey Goldberg announced that It was mistakenly added to the closed chat on the Signal messengerin which leading members of the American administration discussed the attack on the Yemenian rebels. According to him, HegeSeth made available armed activities there.
The journalist received access to detailed surgery plans two hours before hitting. The authenticity of the disclosed messages was confirmed by the spokesman of the National Security Council Brian Hughes.
Together with Snyder, his wife, historian Marcia Shore, moved to the University of Toronto. She will also start lecturing at Munk School this fall. Toronotrogen quoted Shore, who said that both her and Snyder intends to stay in Toronto “for a long time”.
She explained that talks with the university began two years ago, but “our American disaster played a role in the final decision.”
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Scientists write to Canadian universities
Another famous American scientist from Yale, specializing in language philosophy and analysis of fascism, professor of philosophy Jason Stanley, also moves to the University of Toronto. Among his well -known works is the book “How Fascism works”, which was also translated into Polish.
– United States They are in the process of taking over by autocrats and are ruled by a regime, which I do not think he would like to give power (…) This is not only Donald Trump, this is the whole machine behind Donald Trump – said Stanley quoted by the public broadcaster CBC.
The Dailynous portal – specializing in information about philosophy and about the philosophers' environment – said that Stanley explained in the email that “the decision was caused by the political climate in the US”, and the offer from Toronto accepted last Friday. He admitted that he was prompted to this action of the University of Columbia, who agreed to Trump's demands to recover $ 400 million of the budget subsidy, which the president has previously withdrawn.
According to CBC on Thursday, Canadian universities receive many questions, also from very well -known scientists, or could they continue working in Canada.
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