Academic Essays
Talk of a Trump Dictatorship Charges the American Political Debate
New York Times, December 9, 2023
Trump’s Latest Speech Echoes Fascist Rhetoric
Mussolini and Hitler dehumanized their enemies in the same way. Here is a rare Monday post on an important subject: Trump’s use of dehumanizing language that echoes Fascist speech.
Hypermasculinity, Misogyny, Homophobia: The Toxic Triad of Authoritarian Gender Politics
Lucid, November 9, 2023
For the Autocratic GOP, “Fear Does the Business” and Threat is Normalized
October 25, 2023
“We know how damaged our institutions of democracy — our judiciary, the legislature, the executive — have become in the eyes of the American people, even the world, from attacks within over the past few years,” President Joe Biden stated soberly in a late September speech.
What the Authoritarian Playbook Tells Us About Netanyahu, Israel’s Strongman
Haaretz, August 14, 2023
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.