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In Hannah Arendt’s “Origins of Totalitarianism,” she looks at the rise of totalitarianism and its effects on humanity. In our contemporary discourse, we have returned to her analysis as we see the ...

Trump and his MAGA movement have waged an all-out war on the very idea that there are such things in the world as facts, ...

Hannah Arendt came up with ideas for “The Origins of Totalitarianism” while observing Hitler. Adolf Hitler projected his own narrative into his campaign speeches, giving his followers a coherent story ...

My friend had been trying to get me to go to a particular Christian fellowship for months. "You'll meet plenty of interesting people," he said. "No," I replied with the utmost clarity. "It will be the ...

Immediately following the publication of her acclaimed The Origins of Totalitarianism, in 1951, Hannah Arendt (1906-75) embarked on preparing, but never completed, a new book titled Totalitarian ...

Twentieth-century totalitarianism depended on man-gods. Lenin was worshipped as not only spiritually immortal, as Mayakovsky suggested in his poem, but as materially immortal, zombified and on display ...

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We’ve seen a spike over the last few years in the use of the word “authoritarianism.” This is the predictable result of the recent rise of authoritarian regimes which, to a greater or lesser extent, ...