Journals

Discussion: MLK and the Legacy of Civil Disobedience in America

Kenyon Victor Adams; Amy Schiller; Thomas Chatterton Williams
Since we are here concerned with citizenship, I want to preface my brief remarks by signaling the relationship between citizenship and national memory, and how the concept of race, as we see in various historical examples, necessarily replaces that of citizenship. 

Arendt’s Eichmann: Murderer, Idealist, Clown

By Jerome Kohn
Adolf Eichmann was a Nazi Higher SS officer and member of the Gestapo during the Second World War. When the Final Solution of the Jewish Problem was adopted as German policy at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, it became Eichmann’s job to organize the destruction of millions of Jews.

The Shared World of Adversaries 
 

Nikita Nelin shares observations and more from the HAC's 11th Annual Conference, "Citizenship and Civil Disobedience." this piece was originally published in print in HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center, Vol. VII

Organizing from the Ground
 

Sarah Jaffe
We’re here to talk about organizing on the ground. I actually wrote a book about that subject, which I’m going to plug shamelessly.1 I could talk about many, many different examples of organizing and how that builds and sustains social movements; I’m sure we’ll get into many more of them in the Q&A, and I’m happy to answer questions about anyone that you can think of.

On Constitutional Disobedience

Christopher Schmidt
In this essay I consider how reform activists use the United States Constitution as a tool of social movement mobilization. I focus in particular on situations in which activists advance a claim on the meaning of the Constitution that diverges from what the courts—and especially the court at the top of the American judicial hierarchy, the U.S. Supreme Court—say the Constitution means.

Journal Feature: The Destiny of Freedom

This essay was oringally published in HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center.

“We are more” and “We can do it”

By Marion Detjen
I am aware of the fact that the last German who stood here in a Hannah Arendt conference to speak to you about Germany was Marc Jongen, the so-called party philosopher of the AfD, the German extreme right-wing party. While I am not going to apologize for my bad English, one could easily get the impression that Jongen and I represent the two opposing and conflicting camps which these days challenge and strain the cohesion of German society...

Democracy in Name Only

From our 2017 annual conference, Madeleine Rosen asks “Has representative democracy failed?”

America: What Are We Fighting For?

By Roger Berkowitz
The Hannah Arendt Center Conference “The Unmaking of Americans: Are There Still American Ideas Worth Fighting For?” posed a simple yet controversial question: Is America an exceptional country? In other words, Is there an American Idea? And if yes, what is the idea on which America is founded? Those of us who care about the collective American project— the idea of building a common constitutional democracy—have an imperative to ask: What is...