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Plato on Thinking

Plato provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.

Amor Mundi 12/14/14

In this week's Amor Mundi, we reflect on the disclosure of the CIA torture report, celebrate those efforts that are dedicated to keeping "forgotten" memories of Chinese history alive, wonder at the influence Fidel Castro may have had on Hannah Arendt, and much more!

Violence, Art, and Our Crisis in Culture

Laurie Naranch suggests that people's horror at the violence they witness every day can inspire them to attend to things in the common world.

Announcing Our 2014 Thinking Challenge Winners!

We announce the winners of our 2014 Thinking Challenge: Rosa Schwartzburg and Alix Tate!

Aristotle and Arendt

In this week's Library feature, we acknowledge how Aristotle helped shape Arendt's philosophy.

Video Archives - Peter Beinart Presents 'The Crisis of Zionism' (2012)

In this week's Video Archives, we remember a 2012 presentation by Peter Beinart on his book "The Crisis of Zionism."

Joseph Joubert on Thinking

French moralist and essayist Joseph Joubert provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.

The Eichmann Trial: An Ineradicable Sense of Justice

Claudia Hilb reflects on how Adolf Eichmann's crimes awakened in Arendt an archaic sense of justice that is at the same time restrained by the limitations of modern judicial systems.

Amor Mundi 12/7/14

In this week's Amor Mundi, we look into the controversial number of people that are killed each year by police, gain deeper insight into the Nazi Willem Sassen from his daughter, remember the value of being able to think from the perspective of multiple groups, and much more!