On this page you can see the podcasts we have done
This podcast is with Gideon Rachman, who is the chief foreign affairs commentator for the financial times and who has won both the Orwell and European Press Prize awards. This podcast was about his most recent book, The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World; which was in fact the very first book I read about authoritarianism.
This podcast is with Steven Levitsky, who is a professor of government at Harvard and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has written multiple books including Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War, How Democracies die, and Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point.
This podast is with Ruth Ben-Ghiat who is a professor of history and Italian studies at NYU with a PhD in Comparative History. She has written numerous books such as Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. Additionally, she publishes a popular newsletter known as “Lucid” with over 200,000 subscribers that talks about contemporary Authoritarianism.
