Lucid

Lucid

Home
Support
Videos
Archive
About
Most Popular
View all
Violence is Trump's Brand
 • Ruth Ben-Ghiat
69
Preparing Trump’s Military Purge: What MAGA Did Not Want the U.S. Naval Academy to Hear
 • Ruth Ben-Ghiat
113
Special Counsel Jack Smith's New Filing Reveals the Perils of Trump's Personalization of Power
 • Ruth Ben-Ghiat
46
A New Kind of Coup: Trump and Musk are Updating the Autocratic Playbook
 • Ruth Ben-Ghiat
195
It’s Day One--Of a New Phase of the Fight to Save Our Democracy
 • Ruth Ben-Ghiat
112
Out of Chaos and Corruption, a Revelation and a Reckoning
 • Ruth Ben-Ghiat
111
None of This is Normal. A Bizarre and Brutal Administration Makes a Mockery of Governance
Disturbed and damaged individuals rise to the top, and a truly bizarre Modi-Musk "official encounter" sums things up
 • 
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
128
Reg. Info Tonight's Q&A, 8-9pmET
And a dramatic moonscape in Milton, MA
 • 
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
22
Trump Unleashed: How the U.S. May Collaborate with Russia
Solving Putin's problems by ending U.S. restrictions on Russian influence at home and by removing the footprint of U.S. power abroad
 • 
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
133
Preparing Trump’s Military Purge: What MAGA Did Not Want the U.S. Naval Academy to Hear
Welcome back to Lucid, and hello to all new subscribers.
 • 
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
113
Reg. Info Today's Q&A, 1-2pmET, With an Expert on How Tyrants Fall
And a stunning image of Jasper National Park in western Canada
 • 
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
18
States of Emergency: A Favorite Autocratic Tool
Welcome back to Lucid, and hello to all new subscribers.
 • 
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
61
America, Ally of Autocrats
This is not isolationism. It is America reorienting foreign policy to engage with autocracies as an ally.
 • 
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
69
Lucid
Lucid
A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world
Home
Support
© 2025 Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture