Amor Mundi

“It Doesn’t Really Matter”

Ethan Porter and Thomas J. Wood argue that empirical studies show that when Americans of both parties are confronted with corrections to factual misstatements, they overwhelmingly change their opinion of the facts.  — Roger Berkowitz

“We are more” and “We can do it”

By Marion Detjen
I am aware of the fact that the last German who stood here in a Hannah Arendt conference to speak to you about Germany was Marc Jongen, the so-called party philosopher of the AfD, the German extreme right-wing party. While I am not going to apologize for my bad English, one could easily get the impression that Jongen and I represent the two opposing and conflicting camps which these days challenge and strain the cohesion of German society...

HAC Podcast Episode 3: Twilight of the Gods, with Antonia Grunenberg

A talk delivered at the Hannah Arendt Center, November 25, 2019, on Walter Benjamin‘s project of founding a political metaphysics in secular times – and Hannah Arendt‘s answer

Saving America Once Again: Comparing the Anti-Trump Resistance to the Tea Party

By Theda Skocpol
What I’m going to do today is to talk about two remarkable upsurges of self-organized citizen activity that have spread across the United States in just the last decade. I’m going to be talking about the Tea Party from 2009 to 2011—although there are still some Tea Parties meeting—and the anti-Trump grassroots resistance that has self-organized across many communities in the country since the November 2016 election.

Hannah Arendt and World War I: On statelessness and the rise of totalitarian regimes

By Jana Marlene Mader
Behind this narrative of the “dangerous migrant” is a disinformation machine that cultivates the powerful climate of anti-immigration. Unlike the scenario 100 years ago, when nationalism was closely linked to the trial of strength between great powers, we can see a trend that is an irony in itself: the globalisation of nationalism. The target audience in this scenario is the “dissatisfied” citizen..

Everything is Fragile: Reading Arendt in the Anthropocene

John D. Macready, professor of philosophy at Collin College, offers this week's Quote of the Week.
This essay was originally published in Amor Mundi on July 18, 2019.

Democracy in Name Only

From our 2017 annual conference, Madeleine Rosen asks “Has representative democracy failed?”

Racism and Antisemitism

The 2019 Hannah Arendt Center Annual Conference “Racism and Antisemitism” began with Arendt’s insight that antisemitism is a form of racism in that both are ideologies of supremacy and inferiority based on racial difference. Enjoy this video about the conference made by Bard Student and Arendt Center Fellow Jonathan Fine.

The Unquestioned Optimism of Futurists

This week, we are republishing an essay from Nikita Nelin, originally published in February, 2019.