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Jul 14, 2026
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,...
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Jun 23, 2026
Higher education in the United States has been the subject of considerable criticism, especially in the last ten years or so. With the early beginnings of what we used to call...
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Jun 5, 2026
“When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man often becomes a monster in his misery,” wrote Dostoyevsky in The House of the Dead (1862). Hope is often seen as a...
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May 8, 2026
What does it mean to be an American? This question has been asked, in one form or another, since the founding of the United States. The answers are never entirely definitive, but...
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Jan 20, 2026
“Of all passions,” writes Robert Burton in The Anatomy of Melancholy, “love is most violent, and of those bitter potions which this love-melancholy affords,...