Below the Surface.

The Hannah Arendt Center
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6 min readDec 5, 2019

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Underlying beliefs that most of us share

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“Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation.”

— Alasdair Gray

This phase of the U.S. Civil War was not of our choosing. But we’ve been complicit. First, by accepting many indolent assumptions, then by ignoring history.

Take the lesson of the Greatest Generation. Our Roosevelt-era parents and…

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The Hannah Arendt Center
Quote of the Week

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