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Hannah Arendt and Paul Tillich

In this week's Library feature, we appreciate Arendt's copy of Paul Tillich's "The Shaking of the Foundations," which contains a special note.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Thinking

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.

Thinking in School

Nicholas Tampio discusses the dangers of the Common Core program and appeals to Arendt's concept of natality as a way to help education once again teach students how to think for themselves.

Amor Mundi 1/18/15

In this week's Amor Mundi, we recognize the need for us to resist all kinds of political and religious extremism, reflect on the dangers of artistic license when it comes to distorting historical facts, realize the political and cultural value of local diners, and much more.

Arendt and the Gnostics

In this week's Library feature, we appreciate Arendt's interest in the Gnostics.

Bertrand Russell on Thinking

Bertrand Russell provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.

Arendt's Plurality of Languages

Thomas Wild and Anne Posten discuss how we need to read Hannah Arendt in the plurality of her languages in such a way that their differences illuminate each other if we want to grasp the political and poetic spectrum, legacy, and provocation of her thinking.

Amor Mundi 1/11/15

In this week's Amor Mundi, we discuss several different observers' reactions to the Charlie Hebdo attacks, meditate on the use of satire as a form of political commentary, reflect on the legacy of Ferguson, and much more.

Piety or Rage? On the Charlie Hebdo Massacres

Seyla Benhabib has written an essay explaining what the Charlie Hebdo attacks mean to the West's negotiation with Islam in the modern world.