Interviews
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
Insurrection At The U.S. Capitol
The Colin McEnroe Show Podcast, WNPR, January 7, 2021
Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present Interview
Byron Williams, The Public Morality Podcast, December 21, 2020
American Democracy’s Near-Death Experience: How Do We Recover and Ensure It Doesn’t Happen Again?
Deep State Radio Podcast, December 21, 2020
“Like many other authoritarians, Trump excels at creating an alternative reality. For him, it’s always the fault of others,”
Newstatesman.com, December 16, 2020
The History Of Authoritarianism And Its Modern-Day Connections
Texas Public Radio, December 14, 2020
“Trump’s Coup Is Not Over; His Enablers Aren’t Done”
Salon, December 2, 2020
Featured Interviews
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