Ruth Ben-Ghiat

“You find yourself with a state that is transformed out of all recognition, but it’s still ‘democracy.'”

“I think we’re definitely living in a new era,” says Ben-Ghiat, author of Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema. “We’re also being fed a series of crisis narratives by the new right, which would like us to be in a new era where everything is decaying and they are the answer; they are the saviours.”