Hannah Arendt

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The Daily Princetonian | Posted 04.29.2012

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I don't think Internet trends like this necessarily mean we're getting stupider. I think, instead, they provide important societal lens, a vital opportunity to glimpse mass consciousness. If we approach from the right angle, even the Y U NO guy can teach us something.

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The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 08.27.2011

Is there an alternative to ideological illusion and the rhetoric of evil? Yes, there is. We must remember our common human vulnerabilities and bring them into a collective conversation within which our existential anxiety can be held and better borne.

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An Egyptian Revolution? It's Still Too Soon to Say

William Astore | Posted 05.25.2011

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In raising concerns about the long-term meaning and results of Egypt's revolution, we must return to the very definition of revolution: a rapid, fundamental, and violent domestic change in the dominant values and myths of a society.

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A Way To Have Deep Conversations Online... No, Really

Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011

Assaf Peretz has provided a great place online for people to have deep conversations about things that matter: the innovative social website www.THINQon.com.

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Tony Judt's Testimony on his Jewishness

Carlo Strenger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tony Judt has been called a self-hating Jew by some of his critics. In reality he was proud to continue the Jewish tradition of irreverent, independen...

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Sleeping With Your Guru

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011

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Brilliant, talented, successful women sacrifice their lives and dignity to male mentors. What are they thinking?

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American In Worldland: Have-It-Your-Way Truth

Mort Rosenblum | Posted 05.25.2011

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Our blindness is voluntary. In an overheating world, literally and figuratively, complacent citizens shape whatever reality suits them best.

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Colombia: The Calamity of Displaced People

Aldo Civico | Posted 05.25.2011

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Uprooted from their land and stripped of their rights as citizens, one wonders to whom these people belong, and what society they are a part of.

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The Iranian Crackdown: Who's Really Afraid of Whom?

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Every time the regime represses, it further undermines its own power while simultaneously helping to recruit new members to the resistance.

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Why Do So Few Speak Up for Gaza?

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

Why is it that there is such widespread acceptance, beginning with the apologetic arguments of George Bush, that whatever Israel does is always justified as necessary to the survival of the Jewish state?

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