by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Mar 25, 2020 | Authoritarianism, Interviews
Quote from ‘The Worst Type Of Leader To Have In A Crisis’ article by Christopher Mathias in The Huffington Post March 25, 2020 Read the full article at The Huffington Post
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jul 25, 2019 | Donald Trump
Quote from “A Fascist Trump Rally In Greenville” article in The Huffington Post July 18, 2019 Read the rest of the article at the Huffington Post.
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Jan 15, 2016 | Forecasts
Huffington Post, January 15, 2016 Cults of personality: the term might evoke dictators like Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Kim Jong-un today. Yet cults of personality can flourish in a variety of political contexts, as long as there is...
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 | 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...