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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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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.05-14-2015
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.05-13-2015
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.05-12-2015
Architecture: Human Intervention of the Earth
Hans Teerds reflects on how we understand architecture as a political concern and, by extension, understand Karl Jaspers' spatial approach to thinking.05-11-2015
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!05-11-2015
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.05-08-2015
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.05-06-2015
Arendt on Humanity
Kazue Koishikawa challenges us to meditate on how the "political" relates to humanity and to understand why Arendt feels the public realm is diminishing.05-04-2015
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!05-04-2015