America @ 250 Presents: Strongmen and How to Push Back Against Them

Speaker: Ruth Ben-Ghiat 2026 Manatt-Phelps Annual Lecture in Political Science, part of the America250 lecture series. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a Professor of History at New York University and a leading expert on fascism, authoritarianism, and threats to democracy, known for her New York Times bestseller “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present”.

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