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 ...
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 ...
C.L.R. James was one of the true polymaths and original thinkers of the 20th century. His fiction and creative writing laid the foundation for some of that century's great writers including Derek ...
Since Trump’s first term, Hannah Arendt has loomed large in op-eds and political commentary; the German-Jewish thinker’s book The Origins of Totalitarianism has made for a handy resource in comparing ...
“Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny,” part of PBS’s “American Masters” series, is two films, really. One is a documentary about the political thinker, best known for her books “The Origins of ...
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, ...
One night in 1933, after Hitler had taken power, a Jewish journalist in Berlin awoke from uneasy dreams, drenched in sweat. “The thought occurred to me,” she later wrote, “that I might not be the only ...
Tucker Carlson delivered a monologue on the state of the country and the history of using the National Guard to enforce law and order. TUCKER CARLSON: Well, not to be depressing, but here's the truth ...
We need to change this poll now, today, because even ignoring its TOTAL INCAPACITY to reflect how music listening has changed over the last 30 years and especially the last seven, it is also ...