Articles

Amor Mundi 5/17/15

In our Amor Mundi, we meditate on death and the ephemeral nature of the body, investigate the inhuman nature of humanities conferences, and much more!

The Hannah Arendt Library: Black Reconstruction in America

We appreciate two annotations Arendt made to her copy of "Black Reconstruction in America" in this week's Library feature.

The Courage to Be: Jeanne van Heeswijk

Bethany Zulick, a HAC student fellow, recounts Jeanne van Heeswijk's lecture for our spring 2015 "Courage to Be" dinner/speaker series.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Thoughts on Thinking: Live to Write

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of Charles Lindbergh, reflects on writing, thinking, and life in this week's Thoughts on Thinking.

Can We Have Some Privacy?

We share a link to a broadcast by Deutschlandfunk Radio that provides some coverage of "Can We Have Some Privacy?," a conference we sponsored last week.

Amor Mundi 5/10/15

In this week's Amor Mundi, we reflect on the implications of a new French surveillance law, consider the infantalization of college students, and much more!

Arendt in Translation

We share a photograph of a Twitter follower's personal library that includes different translations of many of Hannah Arendt's works.

Khalil Gibran's Thoughts on Thinking: Faith and the Heart

Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran reflects on thinking's inability to meddle with faith in this week's Thoughts on Thinking.

Amor Mundi 5/3/15

In this week's Amor Mundi, we see the banality of evil in the trial of Oskar Gröning, identify certain dangers of social science research, and much more!