by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jun 1, 2024 | Global Authoritarianism
Lucid, June 1, 2024 This morning I was on Ali Velshi’s MSNBC show along with fellow historian Michael Beschloss (we will be on together tomorrow 8-8:30amET on The Weekend show if you missed it). Michael opened by mentioning Small Acts of Courage, Ali’s newly... by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | May 30, 2024 | Donald Trump And the GOP
Lucid, May 30, 2024 Day after day they appeared, many of them dressed in dark suits and red ties, in homage to their leader. They came from Washington D.C. or from the states that had sent them to Congress to do damage control and prop up a personality cult that... by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | May 16, 2024 | Forecasts
The New Republic, May 16, 2024 “Does fascism intend to restore state authority or subvert it? Is it order or disorder? Can you be conservatives and subversives at the same time?” Six months before the March on Rome in October 1922, when Benito Mussolini was the head... by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Apr 11, 2024 | Gender Politics
Lucid, April 11, 2024 In an authoritarian state, women are as much the enemies of the strongman as the press, prosecutors, and the opposition. We can correlate the appeal of strongmen to moments when men feel their status is threatened due to changes in gender roles... by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Mar 29, 2024 | Propaganda
Lucid, March 29, 2024 Last week, I looked at the question of why people believe propaganda. Today, I offer some thoughts about what we can do to push back against it. A January 2021 paper counted 175 civil society organizations around the world now working on... by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Mar 20, 2024 | Donald Trump And the GOP
CNN, March 4, 2023 Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Viktor Orban, Adolf Hitler, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, Saddam Hussein: What do they have in common? All of these authoritarians have reportedly drawn praise from former US president — and now GOP presidential...