by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jun 6, 2017 | Donald Trump
Quote from “Trump Is Now Raging at Jeff Sessions. This Hints at a Deeply Unsettling Pattern” article by Greg Sargent in The Washington Post. Read the full article at The Washington Post. by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | May 11, 2017 | Donald Trump
Once elites are co-opted to an authoritarian it can be very difficult for pragmatic reasons for them to jump ship. This is not, strictly speaking, a constitutional crisis in that it was perfectly legal for Trump to fire the FBI director. What’s at issue is the... 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 | Jan 20, 2017 | Donald Trump
Quote from “Italy: Fascism’s Violent Birth,” Fascism: A Slate Academy Podcast” by Joshua Keating, Rebecca Onion, and June Thomas. January 20, 2017 In the first episode of Fascism: A Slate Academy, Slate writers Rebecca Onion, June Thomas, and Joshua... by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Nov 15, 2016 | Donald Trump
Quote from “The Problem with Mussolini and His Trains” article by David Dudley at CityLab. November 15, 2016 Read the full article at CityLab.