The U.S. Naval Academy is under fire after it invited — then uninvited — a distinguished expert on authoritarianism and fascism to give a lecture. Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a professor of history and ...

Speakers at the U.S. Naval Academy rarely make headlines, let alone attract controversy. But that was before the academy invited Ruth Ben-Ghiat to give its annual Bancroft lecture. A historian with a ...

Professor and authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about dictators and fascism. Why do people support dictators? How do dictators come to ...

The U.S. Naval Academy announced that it would postpone a lecture featuring a politically charged speaker who suggested she would use the event to attack former President Donald Trump, less than a ...