I went to judge a national debate tournament and came away less worried about the teenagers than the politicians and pundits who argue just like them.
Hannah Arendt
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Hannah Arendt’s Life in Friendship
The many bonds the German theorist built and maintained across disagreements were beautiful—and ungeneralizable to America’s crisis of comradery today.
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Hannah Arendt Understood the Forces Behind Donald Trump
The late scholar of mass movements, charismatic leaders, and government violence foreshadowed the president’s rise and the MAGA movement in The Origins of Totalitarianism. Recent polling proves her prescience.
