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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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Amor Mundi 05/22/16
In this week's Amor Mundi, we take a look at the persistence of non-facts in an article by Daniel Egber for Five Thirty Eight, take a peek at the relatively unknown, but important Oulipo movement, consider a Digital Humanities and more...05-22-2016
Amor Mundi 05/15/16
In this week's Amor Mundi, we take a look at the persistence of non-facts in an article by Daniel Egber for Five Thirty Eight, take a peek at the relatively unknown, but important Oulipo movement, consider a Digital Humanities and more...05-15-2016
Amor Mundi 05/08/16
In this week's Amor Mundi, we take a look at the persistence of non-facts in an article by Daniel Egber for Five Thirty Eight, take a peek at the relatively unknown, but important Oulipo movement, consider a Digital Humanities and more...05-08-2016
Amor Mundi 05/01/16
We see an Arendtian lens put to the challenges of power and violence in Egypt, the profile of Justus Rosenberg in a recent New York Times piece, a world with both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at play, "hyper-empathy" and more in this week's Amor Mundi.05-01-2016
Amor Mundi 04/24/16
In this week's Amor Mundi, we look further into the reality of Bitcoin, China, from Confucius to Communism, the rise of virtual reality, the possibility of boredom in the digital age and more...04-25-2016
Amor Mundi 04/17/16
In this week's Amor Mundi, we hear from Yale professor Seyla Benhabib on the European Refugee Crisis, Maurice Chammah's recounting of his father's short trip back to Syria in the 1970s as mizrahi and an emigre to the United States, reflections on David Foster Wallace, William Shakespeare and Miguel Cervantes, and more...04-17-2016
Amor Mundi 04/10/16
In this week's Amor Mundi, we consider the cynicism in paraphrasing, new standard in the latest release of the MLA handbook, legality as it pertains to Mossack Fonseca and the Panama Papers, sexual politics on campus and more...04-10-2016
Amor Mundi 04/03/16
In this week's Amor Mundi, we engage the topic of race, one of the discussion topics of our Fall Conference. We hear about the hidden reason for Maurice Sendak's success, recognize Myanmar's culture of literature, get Wyatt Mason's take on Maylis de Kerangal’s The Heart and more...04-03-2016
Amor Mundi 3/27/16
In this week's Amor Mundi, we learn more about public spaces, hear about the difference between the "black sound" and what it means to "sound white," find out more about Trump's achilles heel, and more...03-27-2016