Samantha Rose Hill is an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and the author of a recent biography of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt. She recently ...

We turn now to Anne Applebaum. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian has written about the current rise of populist authoritarian regimes around the world. She's author of the introduction to the new ...

Ken Krimstein draws wacky gag cartoons—one classic shows two adjacent storefronts: the window sign in the left one reads MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY, while the window sign on the right reads MEDICAL ...

Arendt (1906–1975), among the last century's most eminent political philosophers, never lived to complete the final volume of her comprehensive tome The Life of the Mind , entitled "Judging." This ...

A portrait of political theorist and author Hannah Arendt in 1949. (Fred Stein Archive / Archive Photos / Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

Nearly every day someone or other on my social media feeds will share the same quote by Hannah Arendt. It reads: “This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring ...

IN 1975 A young senator named Joe Biden heard of a lecture that Hannah Arendt had recently given at Faneuil Hall in Boston, on America’s need for a reckoning after the Vietnam war, now that the “big ...

Arendt’s “natality,” a promising foundation for humanness that might be expanded to include those with profound cognitive disabilities, emerges in part out of Arendt’s creative interpretation of ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum about the state of democracy around the world. We turn now to Anne Applebaum. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian has written ...