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Parks, libraries, museums: here’s why Trump is attacking America’s best-loved institutions

The president’s funding cuts and bullying are about dividing Americans and tightening his grip on power

The Guardian - US

Small Boat: this slim, devastating novel about a real migrant shipwreck reminds us of the cruelty of indifference

There’s a particular kind of story that’s rarely executed well – one without heroes, without lessons, without even the cold comfort of a villain you can confidently point at and say: there, that’s the evil. Vincent Delecroix’s Small Boat – a slim, bruising novel translated with quiet precision by Helen…

The Conversation

The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien review – a dazzling fable of migration

The adventures of great voyagers echo across centuries as a father and daughter flee from flooding in near-future China

The Guardian - UK

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Philosopher Hannah Arendt provokes us to rethink what education is for in the era of AI

In the 1954 essay The Crisis in Education, German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt argued that crisis can act as an opportunity to revisit questions that have produced presumed and outdated answers.

The Conversation

Truth and lies, trust and doubt: how should we be navigating the misinformation crisis?

“Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear.”

The Conversation

US will be ‘central’ to climate fight even without Trump, says Cop30 president

André Corrêa do Lago suggests US organisations can play a constructive role even if government limits participation

The Guardian - UK

‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism

From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature

The Guardian - UK

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Loving the world could address the climate crisis and help us make sense of changes to come

This January, the world watched as Los Angeles burned. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” one police chief told reporters, a sentiment echoed by front-line firefighters.

The Conversation

Climate activists ‘did what they did out of sacrifice’, appeal court told

Lawyers invoke philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Henry David Thoreau in bid to have long sentences of 16 protesters quashed

The Guardian - UK

Zuckerberg’s gaslighting isn't working

Mark Zuckerberg’s gaslighting about Meta’s shameful decision to end fact-checking is still very dangerous

Salon

MAGA’s jailhouse-to-White House pipeline

What Trump’s government of criminals and ne-er do wells means for America’s future

Salon

My friend has embraced conspiracy theories and I’m fed up with it

Think of him like a car in a skid, you want to take the steering wheel and switch direction, but the car has too much momentum and it will carry on the same path

The Guardian - UK

China cracks down on Communist party officials for reading banned books

Hillary Clinton and Hannah Arendt thought to be among authors of books procured by officials, as Xi Jinping tightens grip on Communist party

The Guardian - AU

Female Nazi concentration camp guards: the true horror lies in their similarities to ourselves

Between 1939 and 1945, around 10% of concentration camp guards were women, yet these Aufseherinnen (overseers) as they were known, barely feature in Holocaust history or literature. On the few occasions they do appear, it is most commonly as a masculinised sadist when the reality was much more complex.

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London Standard’s AI-generated review, by late art critic Brian Sewell, exposes a significant philosophical threat

For the first issue in its new weekly print edition, the London Standard has run an experiment in the form of an AI-generated review of the National Gallery’s Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers exhibition, written in the style of late art critic Brian Sewell.

The Conversation

Hannah Arendt wanted political thinking to be urgent and engaged. She is a philosopher for our times

Lyndsey Stonebridge begins We Are Free to Change the World, her illuminating biography of Hannah Arendt, by reminding us of her subject’s continuing relevance.

Salon

How MAGA came to call a dog "fake"

Donald Trump controls his followers by convincing them to reject basic reality, even the most banal parts

The Conversation

This 16th-century law was England’s first ‘refugee policy’

Between around 1540 and 1590, several thousand people fleeing religious persecution in what is today the Netherlands arrived in England. Political philosopher Hannah Arendt argued in her 1951 book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, that such migrants were the “happier predecessors” of modern refugees, who are faced with the “severest restrictions”.

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Books That Shook the Business World: The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt

Can you cook your way to stardom from a small kitchen in a tiny apartment? The answer, today, is a resounding ‘yes’. Look for a recipe, make a TikTok reel of yourself cooking, and unleash unlimited possibilities for public recognition. TikTok, as one New York Times article puts it, is…

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Lily Brett’s trip to Poland with her Holocaust survivor father inspired her novel, Too Many Men. 25 years later, it’s a film: Treasure

Lily Brett’s acclaimed novel Too Many Men was published 25 years ago, in 1999. Next month, a feature film adaptation, Treasure, directed by Julia von Heinz and starring Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry, will screen in Australia.

Salon

How endless war has reshaped America

Our culture of Trump, guns, anger and loneliness didn't arise by accident. It took years of misplaced priorities

Salon

The malignant normality of MAGA abuse

Normalizing MAGA abuse only further entraps us in the Trumpocene

Salon

How Trump made them grovel

The GOP made the same bargain the Prussian generals made in 1933 — and the consequence is their total destruction

The Guardian - UK

We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience – review

The rise of rightwing populists has sparked renewed interest in the political philosopher’s writing on totalitarianism, and Lyndsey Stonebridge’s timely biography is compelling and original

The Guardian - UK

The Zone of Interest invites us to face the Holocaust and ask: could we have done this?

Through an Auschwitz commandant’s family life, Jonathan Glazer’s chilling new film reminds us of the banality of evil, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer

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