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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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Bertrand Russell on Thinking
Bertrand Russell provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.01-14-2015
Arendt's Plurality of Languages
Thomas Wild and Anne Posten discuss how we need to read Hannah Arendt in the plurality of her languages in such a way that their differences illuminate each other if we want to grasp the political and poetic spectrum, legacy, and provocation of her thinking.01-12-2015
Amor Mundi 1/11/15
In this week's Amor Mundi, we discuss several different observers' reactions to the Charlie Hebdo attacks, meditate on the use of satire as a form of political commentary, reflect on the legacy of Ferguson, and much more.01-12-2015
Piety or Rage? On the Charlie Hebdo Massacres
Seyla Benhabib has written an essay explaining what the Charlie Hebdo attacks mean to the West's negotiation with Islam in the modern world.01-10-2015
History of Judaism and Its Sects
In this week's Library feature, we appreciate a testament to Arendt's interest in Jewish historiography.01-09-2015
To Transform the Human Species
Jeffrey Champlin investigates Arendt's claim that the racist Nazi government and Soviet communist government both followed a deeper underlying idea.01-05-2015
Amor Mundi 1/4/15
In this week's Amor Mundi, we reevaluate our basic understanding of liberty, reflect on whether economic inequality undermines democracy, realize the blame of the Bush-Cheney White House in allowing torture to flourish in the CIA, and much more.01-05-2015
Arendt and Erdmann
In this week's Library feature, we appreciate Arendt's possession of one of J. E. Erdmann's investigations into the history of philosophy.01-02-2015