Hannah Arendt

Why We Should All Read
Hannah Arendt Now

Lyndsey Stonebridge on “The Origins of Totalitarianism” and the Failure of Democracy

 
By Lyndsey Stonebridge  January 18, 2024
The Hub

Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize has been canceled because of their essay on Gaza.

By Dan Sheehan  December 13, 2023
Nazi Germany

“Woman, Jew, Intellectual:” How the Nazi State Saw Hannah Arendt

By Wolfram Eilenberger  August 10, 2023
Journalism

From Rarefied to Beloved: The Path from Molly Ivins to Joan Didion

By Brooke Kroeger  May 25, 2023
Israel

“A Preservative of a Sense of Jewish Identity.” How the Six-Day War Transformed American Jews’ Relationship to Israel

By Eric Alterman  November 22, 2022
Literary Scenes

Darryl Pinckney on Working for the New York Review of Books and Navigating New York City’s Literary Scene as a Young Black Writer

By Darryl Pinckney  October 26, 2022
Political Science

Sidelined No More: A Reading List of Fiercely Political Women

By Eve Fairbanks  October 4, 2022
Totalitarianism

The Evolution of the Political Lie: David Bromwich on Hannah Arendt and Complicity

By David Bromwich  September 6, 2022
The Hub

Who would you sit with at this 1972 dinner: Dylan and Vonnegut, or Cheever and Ginsberg?

By Jonny Diamond  July 26, 2022
The Hub

20 new books to dive into this week.

By Katie Yee  February 22, 2022
The Quarantine Tapes

Rebecca Solnit: Why It Matters That George Orwell Was a Gardener

By The Quarantine Tapes  November 2, 2021
The Virtual Book Channel

Samantha Rose Hill on the Real Hannah Arendt

By The Virtual Book Channel  November 1, 2021
American Identity

On the Weaponization of Language in a Traumatized Nation

By Andrea Scrima  June 18, 2021
Archives

Private Lives, Public Faces: On What’s Revealed by Hannah Arendt’s Archives

By Samantha Rose Hill  June 8, 2021
Philosophy

How Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger’s Relationship Can Inform Our Current Crises

By Joshua Corey  May 13, 2021
Keen On

Kenneth Cukier and Francis de Vericourt on the GOP’s
Framing Problem

By Keen On  May 11, 2021
Essays

Phillip Lopate Considers America’s Post-WWII Essay Boom

By Phillip Lopate  April 5, 2021
The Quarantine Tapes

Samantha Rose Hill Reconsiders Hannah Arendt’s Thoughts on Hope, a Year into COVID-19

By The Quarantine Tapes  March 12, 2021
Philosophy

Michiko Kakutani on
Why We Love Books

By Michiko Kakutani  October 26, 2020
Essayists

A Brief History of the Political Essay

By David Bromwich  October 22, 2020
Reality?

How Do We Rebuild a Shared American Reality on a Foundation of Lies?

By Roger Berkowitz  October 15, 2020
Presidential Campaign 2020

Civility and So-Called Objectivity is No Way to Contain a Plague of Lies

By Siri Hustvedt  September 15, 2020
Reparations

What Germany Can (and Can’t) Teach America About Reparations and Evil

By Susan Neiman  August 27, 2019
Fascism

An Appeal to the ‘Democratic Conscience of the State’
Won’t Get You Far

By Natasha Lennard  April 26, 2019
Conversations

How Do We Write About Evil?

By Literary Hub  January 4, 2019
Design

Hannah Arendt, Comics, and Me

By Ken Krimstein  September 25, 2018
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