Ideology’s Lethal Lies

In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt wrote, “Ideologies are never interested in the miracle of being. They are historical, concerned with becoming and perishing, with the rise and fall of cultures, even if they try to explain history by some ‘law of nature.’” In The Persistence of the Ideological Lie, Daniel J. Mahoney offers an overview of ideology and its consequences. He also analyzes our current cultural predicament and asks what we can do to move beyond cultural rot and the negation of being.