Welcome to our new blog!
Thanks to a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), this web site of resources and information about Hannah Arendt now has a blog attached to it. From time to time I will be posting short essays, book reviews, anno..
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President Obama’s Middle East Speech: A Two-State Solution?
“The status quo is unsustainable and Israel, too, must act boldly….” Pres. Obama stated this morning in his major speech on the Middle East. A “lasting peace” requires “two states for two peoples.” This, he declared, is what ..
- Posted by Kathy J.
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Guest Commentary: Thinking Like Penelope and Teaching Like Hölderlin: Learning the Art of Teaching from Hannah Arendt
Beginning a few years ago, the NEH opened the competition for summer seminars for schoolteachers to doctoral students. This year, I was lucky enough to have several excellent doctoral candidates apply. John Douglas Macready is a doctoral stude..
- Posted by Kathy J.
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Guest Entry: Writing a Play About Thinking, by Mike Levin
Last summer, sixteen educators joined me at Bard College to participate in the sixth seminar I directed on the political theory of Hannah Arendt. So many different perspectives and responses to Arendt’s work were evident in our conversat..
- Posted by Kathy J.
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Recent Commentaries on Arendt
In the months since the election of Donald Trump, references to Hannah Arendt’s work have sky-rocketed, as have sales of The Origins of Totalitarianism. As a result, I’ve been approached by various news outlets to write commentary on the r..
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