42 min listen
135: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
FromiGen Politics
ratings:
Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Apr 27, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Jill and Victor are joined by Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on the politics and history of strongmen and authoritarians from Mussolini through Trump and Putin. They discuss how these leaders play to toxic hypermasculinity, and use grievance politics, propaganda, and kompromat to take power and maintain control. She also emphasizes the need for prosecution and justice, then explains what happens when they fall.
Get More From Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat:
Twitter | NYU | Website | Substack | Author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present” & Other Books
Get More From Victor and Jill:
Jill Wine-Banks: Twitter | Facebook | Website | Author of The Watergate Girl: My Fight For Truth & Justice Against A Criminal President | iGen Politics
Victor Shi: Twitter |Medium | Blog w/Jill Wine-Banks | Former Biden Delegate: @Bideninaugural | iGen Politics
Email iGen Politics at igp@politicon.com
Or tweet using #iGenPolitics
Get More From Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat:
Twitter | NYU | Website | Substack | Author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present” & Other Books
Get More From Victor and Jill:
Jill Wine-Banks: Twitter | Facebook | Website | Author of The Watergate Girl: My Fight For Truth & Justice Against A Criminal President | iGen Politics
Victor Shi: Twitter |Medium | Blog w/Jill Wine-Banks | Former Biden Delegate: @Bideninaugural | iGen Politics
Email iGen Politics at igp@politicon.com
Or tweet using #iGenPolitics
Released:
Apr 27, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
The Meaning of Conservatism with Bill Kristol: In this episode, Jill and Victor talk with Bill Kristol about what conservatism means in our current political climate, why an organization that Bill is the founder of, Defending America Together, opposes President Trump, what Bill sees as the authoritarian and nativist impulses of the Trump administration, what it means to hold conservative values, and what it means to be American. Bill Kristol has been a leading participant in American political debates and is a widely respected analyst of American political developments for three decades. After serving in the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, Kristol founded The Weekly Standard in 1995 and edited this influential intellectual journal of conservatism for over two decades. Now, as founding director of Defending Democracy Together, a 501c4 advocacy organization composed of conservatives and Republicans fighting for consistent conservative principles like rule of law, free by iGen Politics