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Happy New Year! January 1st, 2017

It is Sunday, January 1st‚—New Years Day. 

2016: A Year In Review

2016: A Year In Review

Happy Holidays! December 25th, 2016

Masha Gessen suggests that facts are not the field on which politics is played, and starting from them is a mistake:

December 18th, 2016

Roger Berkowitz is interviewed by Courtney Tenz in Deutsche Welle about how Hannah Arendt helps make sense of the rise of Donald Trump.

December 11th, 2016

David Runciman asks the question: "Isn’t this how democracy ends?" But the answer he offers is not so simple.

December 4th, 2016

Ian Buruma looks at the special relationship between the U.S. and the U.K. in the wake of Donald Trump's election and the Brexit vote. He argues that both votes are in important ways responding to a similar distaste for certain kinds of citizens.

November 27th, 2016

Arthur Goldhammer argues that Trump's "farrago of falsehoods" threatens the common world that allows any society to exist.

November 20th, 2016

Leon Botstein offers nine "Speculative Thoughts on the Trump Presidency." Here are the first two.

November 13th, 2016

In writing about the evils of genocide and totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt insisted on the effort to understand.