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Civil Disobedience and the Spirit of American Democracy
As fear and retaliation become tools of political control, this piece calls for collective dissent to defend democratic norms and constitutional freedoms under increasing pressure from the Trump administration.04-20-2025
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Please Support the Hannah Arendt Center This Holiday Season!
Please consider supporting the Hannah Arendt Center this holiday season with a donation!12-03-2014
Experience as an Anchor for Thinking
Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen discusses how the absence of experience leads philosophy and ideology into useless abstractions that ignore the reality of human interactions.12-01-2014
Amor Mundi 11/30/14
In this week's Amor Mundi, we reflect on the state of refugees and human rights, realize the need to rethink the role of Congress in formulating U.S. foreign policy, meditate on the outcome of Darren Wilson's trial, and much more.12-01-2014
George Bernard Shaw on Thinking
George Bernard Shaw provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.11-26-2014
The Nation Principle
Michiel Bot explores Arendt's understanding of the "national idea" as one of the origins of totalitarianism.11-24-2014
Amor Mundi 11/23/14
In this week's Amor Mundi, we learn about the adverse health effects of loneliness, perceive the inextricable ties between integrity and privacy and how both are threatened in the age of surveillance, lament the overly scholasticized nature of teaching in America, and much more!11-24-2014
Video Archives - "Lying and Politics: Democracy and Lying" (2011)
In this week's Video Archives, we remember a talk George Kateb gave at our 2011 annual fall conference on the ideal of governmental transparency.11-21-2014
Arendt and Goethe
In this week's Library feature, we appreciate Arendt's impressive collection of Goethe's works.11-21-2014