I'm going to ask a favor of you that you might be reluctant to do. Because the video isn't on YouTube, I don't have any way of embedding it. You'd have to — and this is the hard part — click on over to the New York Times website and watch it there.
At the end of March, I did a post on three Yale professors who were leaving the country and moving to Canada to take positions there. The Yale Daily News reported:
Three prominent critics of President Donald Trump are leaving Yale’s faculty — and the United States — amid attacks on higher education to take up positions at the University of Toronto in fall 2025.
Philosophy professor Jason Stanley announced this week that he will leave Yale, while history professors Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore, who are married, decided to leave around the November elections. The three professors will work at Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
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“When I saw Columbia completely capitulate, and I saw this vocabulary of, well, we’re going to work behind the scenes because we’re not going to get targeted — that whole way of thinking presupposes that some universities will get targeted, and you don’t want to be one of those universities, and that’s just a losing strategy,” Stanley told the Guardian.
If you haven't clicked over yet, the New York Times tracked down these three stunning and brave professors and did a glamour video of them explaining their decision to leave the country, intercut with clips from MSNBC and Nicolle Wallace — fine sources right there. They show a still of Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members in prison in El Salvador. They show — gasp — someone waving an American flag. They show a bunch of Russian words in Cyrillic text on distressed backgrounds for emphasis. They say that one thing they've learned from the Russians is that you have to set up camps of resistance in places of safety. And that place of safety is Toronto.
"There is no limit to the depravity," says Marci Shore, "and the cruelty that we are now watching play out in real time," intercut with shots from inside El Salvador's CECOT prison.
The Times labels the video "opinion," and it's pretty clear which opinion it aligns with.
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I'm still shaken by that shot of someone waving an American flag, myself.
Christopher Rufo wonders what we'll do without a Yale philosophy professor.
Alright, I now wholeheartedly support Trump's plan to invade Canada. We cannot—I repeat, we cannot—lose Jason Stanley to the barren icelands of the north. He must return to the throne as the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. pic.twitter.com/HxDgSgtoJH
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 14, 2025
Every day I can’t imagine the NYT getting any more pathetic and every day I’m proven wrong.
— New York Shade (@newyorkshade) May 14, 2025
This self deportation concept is getting better every day!
— William Rest (@RestWillia6795) May 14, 2025
Tim “everything is fascism” Snyder was a history professor at Yale too, Canada is the BlueSky of countries
— Yuri Bezmenov Subversion (@yuribezmenov22) May 14, 2025
Canada is the Bluesky of countries … I'm stealing that.
RED ALERT: JASON STANLEY, JACOB UROWSKY PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AT YALE UNIVERSITY, IS SO VITAL TO THE SURVIVAL OF THE REPUBLIC THAT SEAL TEAM 6+7 HAVE BEEN DISPATCHED TO CANADA TO REPATRIATE HIM TO THE STATES. pic.twitter.com/i7dOwbNA5B
— Bulkington (@BulkingtonBooks) May 14, 2025
If there's one thing America can't afford to lose, it's philosophy professors.
OK, seriously is Jason Stanley a character? Is it an Andy-Kaufman-style bit?
— Yakov Gourevits 🇩🇪 (@solr22) May 14, 2025
Oh my God my brain is exploding from the level of stupidity of the left🤪
— freedomfighter (@LindaAl53507986) May 14, 2025
Matthew J. Peterson is the editor-in-chief of The Blaze. If you don't watch the New York Times' video, watch his to see what we're losing.
My fond farewell to Jason Stanley. pic.twitter.com/q079SMf2P7
— Matthew J. Peterson (@docMJP) March 27, 2025
"We study Fascism, and we like it, so we're moving to Canada for the censorship, healthcare scarcity, and economic repression."
— Ralph L (@Ralph_L8) May 14, 2025
If they decide they don't like it in Canada, they can always avail themselves of the country's MAID program and euthanize themselves.
That thing that stuns me is the effort the Times puts into these videos. They really make a slick little Hollywood production.
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