by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Feb 26, 2022 | War
MSNBC, February 26, 2022 Shortly before he invaded Ethiopia in 1935, Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini stated, “I follow my instincts, and I am never wrong.” That war bankrupted the state, but it made him popular with Italians as the restorer of the Italian... by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Feb 10, 2022 | War
MSNBC, February 10, 2022 “We want a stable, predictable relationship,” President Joe Biden saidlast May when asked about his goals for his summit the next month in Geneva with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The official summit photograph communicated a...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | May 8, 2015 | War
CNN.com, May 8, 2015 World War II’s end happened over time. Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allies on May 7, 1945 (it was announced the next day, May 8, on what would be known as Victory in Europe Day — or V-E Day), but Italy had been liberated...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Feb 23, 2015 | War, Writing
Huffington Post, February 23, 2015 We are living through another dramatic moment in the complex relationship of war and cinema. This time, Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper is the movie at issue. It has been nominated for six Academy Awards and praised as an anti-war...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Feb 9, 2015 | War
CNN.com, February 9, 2015 Every age has the heroes it deserves, as the saying goes. To judge from the success of the movie “American Sniper,” the hero of the current moment would be the trained killer. Director Clint Eastwood’s movie has been highly...
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Dec 29, 2014 | War
Huffington Post, December 29, 2014 What is it like to live in captivity? How does one survive, physically and psychologically, the experience of the deprivation of freedom? Which captives are remembered, and which forgotten? Events over the past year have brought...
