Interviews
“Any society can be susceptible to strongman figures if it’s the right time”
Stockholm Center For Freedom, June 29, 2021
Les Mensonges De Trump Sont Maintenant Au Cœur De L’identité Républicaine
La Presse, May 7, 2021
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on the Campbell Conversations
WRVO Podcast, April 24, 2021
Electoral Autocracy: The Ruth Ben-Ghiat Interview
Gaslit Nation Podcast, March 17, 2021
Republicans have built a cult of personality around Trump that glosses over his disgraced presidency
Business Insider, March 4, 2021
The Parallels Between Trump and Mussolini
January 22, 2021, MSNBC Morning Joe Show
Extremism in America
ABC News – The Breakdown, January 7, 2021
The Bunker Mentality of an Increasingly Desperate and Delusional Trump
Background Briefing with Ian Masters Podcast, January 14, 2021
Democracy Now Interview
Democracy Now, January 11, 2021
Strongmen From Mussolini to Trump
World Affairs, January 8, 2021
Featured Interviews
SKY News – January 22, 2021
Trump’s Last Stand
ABC News – The Breakdown
January 7, 2021
Extremism in America
WNYC, November 23, 2020
Podcast interview on A History Of Modern Authoritarians
David Pakman Show/ Free Speech TV, November 19, 2020
“How Authoritarian Strongmen Come to Power” interview
WBUR, November 12, 2020
Podcast interview on On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
Vox.com, October 23, 2020
Is Trump a fascist? 8 experts weigh in.
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.
CNN International Interview – November 15, 2020
NPR On Point Podcast
“What The ’Strongmen’ Of History Reveal About Modern Politics “
NPR 1A Podcast
“What is Fascism? Is Trump a Fascist?”
“A Scholar of Fascism Sees a Lot That’s Familiar with Trump,”
The New Yorker, November 4, 2016
Read the full article here.
Strange Days with Fernand Amandi
Two of America’s most prescient scholars on autocracy & fascism, Ruth Ben-Ghiat + Sarah Kendzior, sound the alarm on a must-hear #StrangeDaysPodcast.
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Slate Trumpcast
A Historical Lens on Trump’s Authoritarianism