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Ruth Ben-Ghiat (born April 17, 1960) is an American history professor and political commentator. She is a scholar on fascism and authoritarian leaders. [ 1 ] Ben-Ghiat is professor of history and Italian studies at New York University .
Editor’s Note: Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a professor of history at New York University.She is author of the book “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present,” and she publishes Lucid, a Substack newsletter ...
Ruth Ben-Ghiat in Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (2020), writes Ariel Dorfman, documents the "viral recurrence" around the world, over the past century, of despots and authoritarians "with comparable strategies of control and mendacity". Ben-Ghiat divides the narrative into three – at times, overlapping – periods: [64]
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University who writes about fascism, authoritarianism and propaganda, told the “Pivot” podcast in April that resentment ...
NYU historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat spoke to Insider about the ongoing threat to democracy posed by January 6 and former President Donald Trump. Trump might have to be prosecuted to save American ...
Ben-Ghiat further stated that she "started writing about Trump in 2015 because everything about him seemed familiar to me as someone who had studied fascism for decades: the rallies, the attacks on the press, the lying, the loyalty oaths, the declarations of violent intent, the need to dominate and humiliate". [176]
As Ruth Ben-Ghiat wrote, “Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Viktor Orban, Adolf Hitler, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, Saddam Hussein: What do they have in common? All of these authoritarians have ...
Strongmen, a 2020 book by Ruth Ben-Ghiat; Strongman (rapper), a Ghanaian rapper; People with the surname. Steve Strongman, Canadian blues guitarist, singer and ...