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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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Arendt, The Body, and The Self
Kazue Koishikawa discusses Arendt's conception of the self and how our thoughts, our bodies, our speech, and our love shape our existence as communal beings.09-29-2014
Video Archives - Lunchtime Talk with Bill Dixon (2010)
In this week's Video Archives, we look back on a 2010 Lunchtime Talk with Bill Dixon on a new critique of globalization.09-27-2014
A Vacuum Floating on Air
Roger Berkowitz discusses Carmen Segarra and how her story exposing the Federal Reserve's lack of due diligence, as well as George Packer's book "The Unwinding", reveal a fractured America.09-27-2014
A Holy Find
In this week's Library feature, we discover a Bible and wonder if Arendt herself owned it.09-26-2014
Thucydides on Thinking
Athenian historian and political philosopher Thucydides provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.09-24-2014
Amor Mundi 9/21/14
In this week's Amor Mundi, we appreciate the meaning of artistic talent to our physical and mental health, seek to understand Martin Heidegger's atypical and metaphysical Nazism, revel at the joy that is revision, and much more.09-22-2014
Arendt, Matisse, and Stripping Away the Face
Anne O'Byrne discusses Arendt's reaction to a Matisse exhibition and what "stripping away the face" means for our humanness.09-22-2014
Is America Coming Apart?
Roger Berkowitz discusses American exceptionalism and its decline as evinced in Charles Murray's "Coming Apart".09-21-2014