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Aaron James Wendland

A. J. Wendland is the Vice President of International Affairs and Professor of Public Philosophy at the Kyiv School of Economics. He holds a Doctorate in Philosophy from Somerville College, Oxford, a Master’s in Political Theory from the London School of Economics, and a Master’s in Political Science from the University of Toronto. From 2018-2022, he edited a popular philosophy column, Agora, in The New Statesman, and he has written or produced podcasts for The New York Times, The New Statesman, The Toronto Star, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Ukraine World, and a host of other media outlets.

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Philosopher Jason Stanley: 'Russia is explicitly fascist'

by Aaron James Wendland
Eighteen months into Russia's all-out war against Ukraine, which left tens of thousands of people dead, many more injured, and entire regions destroyed, observers still lack the vocabulary to adequately describe Moscow's actions. Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale University and author of "How Fascism Works," visited Kyiv in early August to talk about the history of fascism, colonialism, and the roots of Russia's ongoing war. "Ukraine has been the victim of Soviet genocide, and the