Jason Stanley was a professor at Yale University for 12 years.
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Robinson's PodcastSep 23, 2026
Sources show Jason Stanley joined Yale as a professor of philosophy in 2013 and left in 2025, and CNN explicitly says he had spent 12 years teaching there, so the claim that he was a Yale professor for 12 years is supported. The claim faithfully paraphrases the passage's 'a dozen years' at Yale.
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… I am curious how you feel about the prescience of your departure from the United States to Toronto, and how you're reflecting on that sometime later now. Well, I hadn't anticipated the personal cost, ah, on removing myself from an institution I loved. Yale You know, a dozen years of being part of the woodwork on, y at Yale, I was in the faculty senate. I was like, you know, I had had spend years i, I love teaching so, you know, ah, I'd spend years building up, you know, credibility among undergraduates, so my courses were, were, were packed, and, you know, I had friends across …
Robinson's Podcast · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. CNN's March 2025 report says Stanley 'has spent 12 years teaching at the university' at Yale.[2]
Supports. Stanley's CV lists his Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy appointment at Yale as 2013–2025, which spans about 12 years.[3]
Supports. Yale News reports that Stanley came to Yale in 2013 as professor of philosophy, consistent with a departure in 2025.[1]
Supports. Wikipedia lists his Yale professorship as 2013–2025, consistent with a roughly 12-year tenure.[4]
Context. Sources agree he left Yale in 2025 for the University of Toronto, which bounds the tenure at about 12 years.[5][6]
Sources
6 sources: 1 primary, 3 tier 2, 2 not rated
- 1Jason Stanley named the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophynews.yale.edu · primary source · cited for: supports
- 23 Ivy League scholars plan to leave US and teach in Canada amid Trump administration's higher education battlecnn.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 3Jason Stanleyjasonstanley.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Jason Stanley - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Why this Yale professor is fleeing Americanpr.org · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 6I Study Fascism. I've Already Fled America.motherjones.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
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