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Featured Article

Taking White Interests Seriously?

By Roger Berkowitz
Isaac Chotiner of The New Yorker  interviews Eric Kauffman about his new book Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities. Kauffman’s book looks analyzes a double insight...
05-26-2019

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American Citizenship

“these citizens are united only by one thing, and that’s a big thing: that is, you become a citizen of the United States by consenting to its Constitution. The Constitution… is the constant remembrance of a sacred act, the act of foundation. And the foundation is to make a union out of wholly disparate ethnic minorities and religions, and still (a) have a union and (b) not assimilate or level down these differences.”
—Arendt, 1973
11-04-2018
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A Liberal Nationalism

Hannah Arendt understood that nationalism—ethnic nationalism—could undermine the political equality at the center of the modern state.  But she worried equally if not more about imperialism and globalization. Politics, Arendt argued, is about the artificial constitution of bounded peoples that live together in a common and shared world.
10-21-2018
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Citizenship and Civil Disobedience

In the years leading up to the Civil War, there were more than 70 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.
10-13-2018
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The Academy Undressed

For the past year three scholars have been submitting papers to top journals specializing in the fields of activism and grievance studies. Several of their papers have been published, including a 3,000 word excerpt from Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, rewritten through the lens of intersectionality theory.
10-07-2018
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The Banality of the Elite

Know Your Lane, Imagining the Real, Disrupting Whiteness, Thank You!, Punching Down, Civil Disobedience, The Arendt Center is Hiring
09-30-2018
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Good and Evil

Know Your Lane, Imagining the Real, Disrupting Whiteness, Thank You!, Punching Down, Civil Disobedience, The Arendt Center is Hiring
09-24-2018
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The World in the Middle

Know Your Lane, Imagining the Real, Disrupting Whiteness, Thank You!, Punching Down, Civil Disobedience, The Arendt Center is Hiring
09-20-2018
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The Lesser Evil

Know Your Lane, Imagining the Real, Disrupting Whiteness, Thank You!, Punching Down, Civil Disobedience, The Arendt Center is Hiring
09-11-2018
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Power and Civil Disobedience

Know Your Lane, Imagining the Real, Disrupting Whiteness, Thank You!, Punching Down, Civil Disobedience, The Arendt Center is Hiring
09-05-2018
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