Interviews
Background Briefing with Ian Masters Podcast
Background Briefing Podcast, November 10, 2020
Is Trump A Fascist? 8 Experts Weigh In
Vox.com, October 23, 2020
“The entire intellectual and epistemological structure has to be contorted to serve their ends…it’s not so much about denial as it is a reshaping of the scientific agenda.”
October 15, 2020, Rolling Stone
“Strongmen succeed by spinning tales of invincibility. Ordinary men might die, but Trump is able to survive.”
The Washington Post, October 10, 2020
NYRB Profile: Why I Decided to Study Fascism
New York Review Of Books, August 31, 2020
“Trump is a chaos agent.”
The Washington Post, August 10, 2020
“Strongmen leaders incite crises so they can pose themselves as the law-and-order solution.”
The Washington Post, August 30, 2020
Honestly Speaking With Tara Setmayer Podcast
Tara Setmayer Podcast, September 3, 2020
“[Leaders like Trump] are not there to govern, but to enrich themselves and plunder the nation.”
Washington Post, July 10, 2020
“Today, authoritarianism keeps a veneer of democracy…We are still searching for a language to describe what is unfolding.”
Los Angeles Review of Books, July 20, 2020
Featured Interviews
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