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A Carnival of Destruction
The elite's complicity in mass movements lies in their thrill at unmasking societal hypocrisy, yet this descent into shamelessness fuels a carnival of destruction that empowers mob rule. Straddling the line between boldness and brazen disregard, figures like Trump and Musk embody the seductive but corrosive allure of totalitarian nihilism.11-17-2024
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To Think What We Have Done
Alex Cocotas worries about the culture of Holocaust memorialization.04-23-2017
The World At Stake
Lacino Hamiltion argues that Black Lives Matter is transforming from a protest movement into a political movement.04-16-2017
Butterflies and Bees
Ralph Benko offers a fascinating metaphor of the Bees and the Butterflies that helps explain the political divide in the United States.04-09-2017
Listening And The Lecture
Miya Tokumitsu offers a defense of the much maligned university lecture. The attack on the lecture—that is passive learning and offers one-size-fits-all education—should not be true.04-02-2017
The Honor System
In an interview with Michael Judge, Garry Kasparov elaborates on his off-the-cuff remark that Donald Trump's press conference resembled a Soviet press conference.03-26-2017
The Courage to Be: Penny Gill
Claire Harvey, Stefan Stojanov, and Annah Heckman, HAC student fellows, share their thoughts on Penny Gill's visit for our spring 2017 "Courage to Be" Dinner and Lecture Series.03-21-2017
Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism
Roger Berkowitz has been teaching a semester-long course on Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism for more than a decade. He is currently leading the Hannah Arendt Center's Virtual Reading Group sessions on the book. In a long essay in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Berkowitz argues that Arendt's brilliant insights into totalitarian movements is an essential guide to today's political world.
03-19-2017
Getting Religion
William Deresiewicz has published a version of the talk he gave at the Hannah Arendt Center's Fall Conference "Real Talk: Difficult Questions About Race, Sex, and Religion." Deresiewicz argues that orthodox political correctness is the new religion on campus.03-12-2017
How Quickly It Can Happen
Timothy Snyder is the latest to remind us "how quickly a modern republic can be transformed into an authoritarian regime."03-05-2017