Peter Lilja (Malmo): Defending a Common World: Hannah Arendt on the State, the Nation and Political Education. From Public Seminar, a symposium on Reading Hannah Arendt’s Crises of the Republic in the Age of Trump, including Mary G. Dietz (Northwestern): Lying as Politics in the Age of Trump: What Hannah Arendt does, and does not, anticipate under a deeply vicious presidency; William E. Scheuerman (Indiana): Civil Disobedience in the Age of Trump: Hannah Arendt on why civil disobedience is not just justifiable but politically imperative; and Seyla Benhabib (Yale): What is the Crisis a Crisis of? To characterize our republic’s predicament as one of democracy is an authoritarian fantasy. Richard J. Bernstein on the urgent relevance of Hannah Arendt and on the illuminations of Hannah Arendt. Lucy Cane reviews Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Human Dignity by John Douglas Macready.
