Thank you Brad. Does this mean that we are finally resurrecting Arendt’s reputation? Over the last twenty years I have found that many of my acquaintances insisted on rejecting her. Yet, I find myself returning ever more often to Arendt, Fromm, Solzhenitsyn, and Havel. Primo Levi’s If This is A Man sits in my office daring me to read it,…
Thank you Brad. Does this mean that we are finally resurrecting Arendt’s reputation? Over the last twenty years I have found that many of my acquaintances insisted on rejecting her. Yet, I find myself returning ever more often to Arendt, Fromm, Solzhenitsyn, and Havel. Primo Levi’s If This is A Man sits in my office daring me to read it, as it has for more than a decade. Recent events mean that I now must finally torture my soul with the reality of our inhumanity. Lessons are painful to relearn.
Today is Presidents’ Day. While not a president, now is a good time to remember Eleanor Roosevelt, who successfully lobbied for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Like Arendt, the ideas dismissed as unfashionable are needed more than ever. It is not the left or the right that argue against our universal values, but the left and the right. We are back where we started on the 26th of June, 1945.
Thank you Brad. Does this mean that we are finally resurrecting Arendt’s reputation? Over the last twenty years I have found that many of my acquaintances insisted on rejecting her. Yet, I find myself returning ever more often to Arendt, Fromm, Solzhenitsyn, and Havel. Primo Levi’s If This is A Man sits in my office daring me to read it, as it has for more than a decade. Recent events mean that I now must finally torture my soul with the reality of our inhumanity. Lessons are painful to relearn.
Today is Presidents’ Day. While not a president, now is a good time to remember Eleanor Roosevelt, who successfully lobbied for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Like Arendt, the ideas dismissed as unfashionable are needed more than ever. It is not the left or the right that argue against our universal values, but the left and the right. We are back where we started on the 26th of June, 1945.
I look forward to listening to the podcast.