Crises in Academia Today

This business of ‘publish or perish’ has been a catastrophe. People write things which should never have been written and which should never be printed. Nobody’s interested. But for them to keep their jobs and get the proper promotion, they’ve got to do it. It demeans the whole of…

Hannah Arendt on Education

… it seems to me that conservatism, in the sense of conservation, is of the essence of the educational activity…

Education Without Authority?

“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable.”

Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and the Importance of the Interior

“The French have become masters in the art of being happy among ‘small things,’ within the space of their own four walls, between chest…

Bloodless Death: Thinking the Refugee Crisis With Hannah Arendt

“Brought up in the conviction that life is the highest good and death the greatest dismay, we became witnesses and victims of worse terrors…

Education, Politics, and Learning

Max Botstein

“Education can play no part in politics, because in politics…

SHOULD ACTIVISTS USE VIOLENCE TO CREATE SOCIAL CHANGE?

“In politics, we are concerned with the world and not with…

Truthfulness in a post-truth society

“Absolute truth, which would be the same for all men and therefore unrelated, independent of each man’s existence, cannot exist for mortals. For mortals the important…

Arendt and the Question of the Private: Is There Anything Outside Public Scope?

A life spent entirely in…

The Refugee Question

“In the first place, we don’t like to be called ‘refugees.’”
 — Hannah Arendt