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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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February 12th, 2017

Peter Baehr is one of our best Arendt scholars, and his work explicating Arendt's thinking about totalitarianism is invaluable. In his essay "The Theory of Totalitarian Leadership," Baehr argues that the totalitarian leader is only comprehensible as a mouthpiece of what Arendt calls the masses.
02-12-2017
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February 5th, 2017

David Kaiser writes about his experience being interviewed by Steve Bannon for Bannon's film Generation Zero, a documentary about the financial crisis.
02-05-2017
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January 29th, 2017

Turning Ourselves Into Outlaws
01-29-2017
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January 22nd, 2017

Populism and Totalitarianism
01-22-2017
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January 8th, 2017

The Patriots v.s. The Cosmopolitans
01-08-2017
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Happy New Year! January 1st, 2017

It is Sunday, January 1st‚—New Years Day. 
01-01-2017
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2016: A Year In Review

2016: A Year In Review
12-28-2016
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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:
12-25-2016
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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.
12-18-2016
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