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Saving America Once Again: Comparing the Anti-Trump Resistance to the Tea Party
By Theda SkocpolWhat I’m going to do today is to talk about two remarkable upsurges of self-organized citizen activity that have spread across the United States in just the last decade. I’m going to be talking about the Tea Party from 2009 to 2011—although there are still some Tea Parties meeting—and the anti-Trump grassroots resistance that has self-organized across many communities in the country since the November 2016 election.
07-11-2020
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Whistleblowing as Civil Disobedience: Leaks in the Era of Trump and the Deep State
By Allison StangerWriting in the March–April 2018 issue of Foreign Affairs, the political philosopher Michael Walzer, whom some of you may know as the author of Just and Unjust Wars, identified several types of leaks and whistleblowing and explored their ethical implications. Walzer defined whistleblowing as conveying what a person “believes to be immoral or illegal conduct to bureaucratic superiors or to the public,” and he implied that there was no way to make...
12-04-2019
What Does It Mean to Educate Citizens?
Leon Botstein, Bard College President, discusses education and the public sphere in this talk from our 2013 Annual Conference11-20-2019
Citizenship and Civil Disobedience: Reflections on Civil War and Civil Disobedience
by Roger BerkowitzIn the years leading up to the Civil War, there were more than seventy violent clashes between Representatives and Senators in Congress. In her book Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and Road to Civil War Joanna Freeman tells a story of a raucous antebellum Congress replete with bullying, dueling, and fistfights.1 Even amidst the bitter animosity that pervades Washington, D.C., in the era of President Donald Trump, it takes some effort to imagine our elected officials...
10-02-2019
The Four Prejudices Underlying Our Crises of Democracy
This essay by Roger Berkowitz was originally published in HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center.08-02-2019
Human Being in an Inhuman Age
Roger Berkowitz wrote this essay, first published in the HA Journal, on Arendt, the technological revolution, and the singularity.06-29-2019
Is Lying A Political Virtue?
This piece, by Uday S. Mehta, was originally published in Volume 1 of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center. 06-14-2019
The Greatest Possible Torment: The Last Judgment by Frans Floris
Max FeldmanMax Feldman writes about the holocaust, Arendt, and Frans Floris's The Last Judgment in this month's column.
05-31-2019
Martin Heidegger and Günther Anders on Technology: On Ray Kurzweil, Fritz Lang, and Transhumanism
By Babette BabichAll mere chasing after the future so as to work out a picture of it through calculation in order to extend what is present and half thought into what, now veiled, is yet to come, itself still moves within the prevailing attitude belonging to technological calculating representation.
- Martin Heidegger, The Turning
05-09-2019
Democratic Education and the Open Inquiry Imperative
By Elizabeth BeaumontFromn volume III of HA: The Jounral of the Hannah Arendt Center.
04-26-2019