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On Misinformation
Audrey Tang, the Digital Minister of Taiwan for nearly a decade, is one the leading thinkers and practitioners of using technology to enhance public discourse.03-30-2025
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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
The Courage to Be: Tania Bruguera
Ana Bauer, Gemma Godfrey, and Loreli Mojica, HAC student fellows, share their thoughts on Tania Bruguera's visit for our spring 2017 "Courage to Be" Dinner and Lecture Series.05-19-2017
People's Assemblies
Kate Aronoff interviews Chokwe Antar Lumumba, who will likely be the next Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. Lumumba is an advocate of bringing "people's assemblies" back into government, a new way to rethink the idea of self-government.05-14-2017
Reactionism
Andrew Sullivan rightly sees that we are in the grip of reactionism, not conservatism. Reactionism is not simply about hatred or racism. It is illiberal, yes, but an indignant rejection of the status quo.05-07-2017