by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Oct 25, 2020 | Donald Trump, Fascism
Vox.com, October 23, 2020 Call him a kleptocrat, an oligarch, a xenophobe, a racist, even an authoritarian. But he doesn’t quite fit the definition of a fascist. Read the full article here.
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Sep 13, 2020 | Fascism, Interviews
New York Review Of Books, August 31, 2020 This week we published Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s “Co-opt & Corrupt: How Trump Bent and Broke the GOP.” A professor of history and Italian studies at New York University, Ben-Ghiat has turned a specialty in the cultural study...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jul 29, 2020 | Donald Trump, Fascism, Interviews, Podcasts
What is Fascism? podcast interview on NPR 1A July 27, 2020
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jun 14, 2019 | Fascism, Interviews
Quote from “The Eternal Mystery Of Fascism Is: Why Did So Many People Buy Into It?” interview by Eve Gerber on Fivebooks.com. June 14, 2019 In an era of Trumpism and fake news, the word ‘fascist’ is thrown around with increasing ease and little attention...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Mar 22, 2019 | Fascism, Interviews
Quote from “What to Know About the Origins of Fascism’s Brutal Ideology,” article, an extensive interview by Olivia B. Waxman outlining the rise and fall — and rise again — of fascism at TIME. March 22, 2019 Benito Mussolini came up with the term fascism,...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jan 23, 2019 | Fascism
PBS Interview, Dictator’s Playbook, Mussolini, January 23,...