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Temptations of Tyranny
Rod Dreher’s conflicted support for President Trump illustrates a broader crisis among intellectual conservatives who fear the "soft totalitarianism" of liberal institutions yet embrace the hard authoritarianism of executive overreach. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s political thought, the essay contends that true freedom is preserved not through charismatic leaders but through the multiplication and decentralization of citizen power. Revitalizing democracy, it argues, requires stubborn, local acts of collective governance rather than the dangerous temptation to concentrate authority in a single figure.04-27-2025
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Against Sovereignty
Against Sovereignty, The Partisanship of Higher Education, Speaking Truthfully, Turn Inward, From The Mailbox, The World at Stake07-16-2017
Friendship Versus Banality
George Prochnik explores the deep friendship between Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem.06-04-2017
Justice Thomas' Racial Fatalism
The Supreme Court this week ruled that two gerrymandered districts in North Carolina were unconstitutional because they were impermissibly drawn on racial grounds to dilute the vote of black Americans.05-28-2017
Words That Mean Nothing
Masha Gessen, who will be speaking at the Hannah Arendt Center Conference on "Crises of Democracy," turns to Hannah Arendt to understand Donald Trump's assault on language and our common world.05-21-2017