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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

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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.

The Conversation

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.

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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.

The Conversation

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

Salon

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”.

The Conversation

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.

The Conversation

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

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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

Salon

"Late Fascism": It's more than Trump

Fascism has been lurking under the surface of liberal democracy all along — we just didn't want to see it

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Walter Benjamin's Illuminations: the remarkably prescient work of an intellectual truth-seeker

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Posy Simmonds’s cultural highlights

The cartoonist on inspiring female thinkers, watching giraffes on TV, and the best shop for pencils

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Gessen Gets German Prize Amid Controversial Gaza-Nazi Comparison

Masha Gessen receives German literary prize amidst controversy over comparing Gaza to Nazi ghettos. The event sparked intense debate in Germany.

The Independent UK

German foundation cancels award for journalist who compared Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghetto

Foundation says essay’s implication that Israel aimed to ‘liquidate Gaza like a Nazi ghetto’ is unacceptable

The Guardian - UK

Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos

US-Russian journalist Masha Gessen won Germany’s Hannah Arendt prize for political thought

The Conversation

Was going to space a good idea?

In 1963, six years after the first satellite was launched, editors from the Encyclopaedia Britannica posed a question to five eminent thinkers of the day: “Has man’s conquest of space increased or diminished his stature?” The respondents were philosopher Hannah Arendt, writer Aldous Huxley, theologian Paul Tillich, nuclear scientist Harrison…

The Conversation

Nazi doctors weren't just ‘a few bad apples’, shows report – and simplistic stories won't help guard against future medical abuses

Extraordinary evil involves a total moral collapse across society caused by failure of individual humanity and ethical judgment. This was the conclusion of the philosopher Hannah Arendt after witnessing the trial of Adolf Eichmann – the chief architect of the Holocaust – in Jerusalem.

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