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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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Violence, Art, and Our Crisis in Culture
Laurie Naranch suggests that people's horror at the violence they witness every day can inspire them to attend to things in the common world.12-15-2014
Announcing Our 2014 Thinking Challenge Winners!
We announce the winners of our 2014 Thinking Challenge: Rosa Schwartzburg and Alix Tate!12-13-2014
Aristotle and Arendt
In this week's Library feature, we acknowledge how Aristotle helped shape Arendt's philosophy.12-12-2014
Video Archives - Peter Beinart Presents 'The Crisis of Zionism' (2012)
In this week's Video Archives, we remember a 2012 presentation by Peter Beinart on his book "The Crisis of Zionism."12-11-2014
Joseph Joubert on Thinking
French moralist and essayist Joseph Joubert provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.12-10-2014
The Eichmann Trial: An Ineradicable Sense of Justice
Claudia Hilb reflects on how Adolf Eichmann's crimes awakened in Arendt an archaic sense of justice that is at the same time restrained by the limitations of modern judicial systems.12-08-2014
Amor Mundi 12/7/14
In this week's Amor Mundi, we look into the controversial number of people that are killed each year by police, gain deeper insight into the Nazi Willem Sassen from his daughter, remember the value of being able to think from the perspective of multiple groups, and much more!12-08-2014
Arendt, Nietzsche, and Power
In this week's Library feature, we appreciate two passages on Nietzsche that Arendt found worthy of annotation.12-05-2014
Video Archives - "Revenge and the Art of Justice" (2011)
In this week's Video Archives, we look back on a lecture Roger Berkowitz gave on the relationship between revenge and justice.12-04-2014