by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Apr 18, 2017 | Donald Trump And the GOP
It’s a haunting image. A basement space with blacked-out windows, crowded with camera equipment and journalists who were assigned to cover the Leader during the state visit of a foreign dignitary but were not allowed to look outside. Was this Vladimir... by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Mar 31, 2017 | Donald Trump
Quote from “Is Trump a Fascist?” article by Neta Alexander in Haaretz. March 31, 2017 Read the whole article at Haaretz. by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Feb 17, 2017 | Donald Trump
“I think we’re definitely living in a new era,” says Ben-Ghiat, author of Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema. “We’re also being fed a series of crisis narratives by the new right, which would like us to be in a new era where everything...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Feb 1, 2017 | Forecasts, Global Authoritarianism
CNN.com, February 1, 2017 We’re not even two weeks into the Trump presidency. Has your head exploded yet? If so, you’re right where Donald Trump and our shadow ruler, Steve Bannon, want you to be. The onslaught of executive orders and threatening talk,...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jan 22, 2017 | Forecasts
The Atlantic, January 22, 2017 In The Captive Mind, Czeslaw Milosz tells a story about a man who ventures out in the immediate aftermath of the fall of a regime. Papers full of state secrets lie in the streets, their knowledge less important for the moment than...
