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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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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
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
Amor Mundi 11/16/14
In this week's Amor Mundi, we reflect on how one's living environment growing up affects one's future, wonder whether privacy exists in our networked society, realize the exponential decline of innovation, and much more.11-17-2014
Obedience and Political Affairs
Johannes Lang discusses Arendt's critique of obedience in political and moral matters.11-17-2014