Academic Essays
History Shows Trump’s Worst Impulses May Backfire on Him
The New York Times, February 1, 2026
Trump’s Authoritarian Innovations
Project Syndicate, December 5, 2025
Trump Wants You to Get Used to This
The New York Times, June 15, 2025
A New Kind of Coup: Trump and Musk are Updating the Autocratic Playbook
Lucid, February 2, 2025
Tulsi Gabbard Fits Right Into Trump’s Vision for America
The New York Times, January 30, 2025
Ruth Ben-Ghiat has been recognized for her groundbreaking interdisciplinary work throughout her career. Her scholarship on fascism, World War Two, and visual propaganda has introduced new approaches, broken with prevailing orthodoxies, and integrated new sources, from forgotten Fascist-era films and novels to documents from the United Nations War Crimes Commission.