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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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Political Lies: Altering Facts and Rewriting History
Richard A. Barrett discusses how political lies not only skew history but also undermine a political actor's ability to engage with reality.02-09-2015
Amor Mundi 2/8/15
In this week's Amor Mundi, we reflect on the transformation of artists into creative entrepreneurs, meditate on the fragility of our common world, recognize the importance of "popular art," and much more.02-09-2015
Hannah Arendt Library: The History of Florence
In this week's Library feature, we appreciate a particular passage that Arendt underlined in Machiavelli's history of Florence.02-06-2015
J. William Fulbright on Thinking
J. William Fulbright provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.02-04-2015
Undodged Bullets and Broken Eggs
Ian Storey discusses how a problem of language and appearance in our society fails to account for untold millions of people who are suffering.02-02-2015
Amor Mundi 2/1/15
In this week's Amor Mundi, we explore the rules of the modern political correctness movement, reflect on the state of anti-rape activities on college campuses, revisit our understanding of affluence in America, and much more.02-02-2015
A Special Donation
The Hannah Arendt Center acknowledges a special donation it received from Konstanze Bachman in honor of her mother, Maria Schmitt-Kuemmell.01-31-2015
Hannah Arendt Library: Winston Churchill
We appreciate two volumes of Churchill's history of the Second World War and how they may have influenced Arendt's understanding of the human condition.01-30-2015