• Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat

  • Nov 12 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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  • Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University. She writes about fascism, authoritarianism, propaganda, and the threats these present to democracies around the world.

    Her most recent book, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (2020; paperback, 2021), looks at how illiberal leaders use propaganda, corruption, violence, and machismo, and how they can be defeated. She is the recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other fellowships, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and a 2023 Maggie and Dan Inouye Distinguished Chair of Democratic Ideals at the University of Hawaii. She publishes Lucid, a Substack newsletter on threats to democracy in the U.S. and abroad.

    She writes for CNN, The Economist, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She has appeared in many documentaries about dictators and threats to democracy, such as Netflix’s How To Become a Tyrant and PBS’s The Dictators’ Playbook.
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