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The Big Picture with Edwin EisendrathRuth Ben-Ghiat brings her talent as an historian and scholar of authoritarians and authoritarian movements to the fight for democracyRuth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University. She writes frequently for MSNBC and other media outlets on threats to democracy around the world. Her latest book, Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present examines how illiberal leaders use corruption, violence, propaganda, and machismo to stay in power, and how resistance to them has unfolded over a century. She also has a substack called “Lucid” that I highly recommend.In our most recent coversation, we talked about:* How many Americans are naïve about what democracy is. * Why autocrats hold...
2023-06-1727 min