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When We Choose Knaves
The Alien and Enemies Act gives the President nearly unfettered power to expel non-citizens in times of war and the Supreme Court has given the President great leeway to determine what is and what is not a war. What we are witnessing is less a constitutional crisis than a cold and cruel manipulation of existing laws to stoke fear that is shocking to our humanist sensibilities. 03-23-2025
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Video Archives - A Discussion on the Intellectual Origins of the Financial Crisis (2011)
In this week's Video Archives, we remember a 2011 discussion between Roger Berkowitz and David Matias on the origins of the 2008 financial crisis.10-16-2014
Horace Walpole on Thinking
Horace Walpole provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.10-15-2014
Amor Mundi 10/12/14
In this week's Amor Mundi, we recognize Patrick Modiano for his winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, wonder at how few memoirs have been written about the War in Afghanistan when compared to the Iraq War, ask whether big data is the new positivism, and much more!10-13-2014
Arendt on Humanity's Cosmic Awareness
Jeffrey Champlin explores Arendt's writings on humanity and the models of self-awareness it commonly uses to understand its earthly existence.10-13-2014
The Webcast Link for Our 2014 Fall Conference Is Now Live!
The Hannah Arendt Center announces that the webcast link for its upcoming fall conference is now live!10-07-2014
Amor Mundi 10/5/14
In this week's Amor Mundi, we explore novelist Marilynne Robinson's observation that fear dominates the contemporary human condition, value the recognition of the "now" as made manifest in Richard McGuire's "Here", reflect on academics' deficiency when it comes to writing, and much more!10-06-2014
Destiny and Democracy
Ian Storey invokes two pieces by E. B. White to speculate on the United States fear for the world it must confront today.10-06-2014