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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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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
The Unmaking of Americans: Are There Still American Ideals Worth Fighting For?
In this week's Weekend Read, in preparation for our upcoming conference, Roger Berkowitz reflects on the decline of American exceptionalism and wonders what American ideas, if any, can inspire Americans to sacrifice and struggle for the common good.10-04-2014
A Love for Lichtenberg
This week, we appreciate a collection of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's work in Arendt's library.10-03-2014
Video Archives - The Anti-Political Prejudices of Modernity: A Civil Humanist Critique (2012)
For this week's Video Archive, we look back to a 2012 lecture delivered by Michael McCarthy analyzing Arendt's critique of "the world alienation of modernity".10-02-2014