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"Something has happened to the fabric of society"
This essay contrasts Mister Rogers' vision of neighborliness with the harsh treatment of legal immigrants in the United States, focusing on the case of Kseniia Petrova. It explores how class resentment and institutional silence have enabled arbitrary cruelty toward those who came here to contribute.04-13-2025
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February 19th, 2017
Masha Gessen rightly cites Hannah Arendt in Gessen's essay in praise of hypocrisy.02-19-2017
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
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
Happy New Year! January 1st, 2017
It is Sunday, January 1st‚—New Years Day.01-01-2017