Academic Essays
‘We are Underreacting to how Serious this Moment is’
WBUR, June 5, 2024
A Fateful Time in Our Nation’s History
Lucid, June 1, 2024
The Political Theater of the Trump Trial
Day after day they appeared, many of them dressed in dark suits and red ties, in homage to their leader.
The Political Theater of the Trump Trial
Lucid, May 30, 2024
The Permanent Counterrevolution
The New Republic, May 16, 2024
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.