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Book cover for Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
The Electoral College was never designed to protect small states against the tyranny of larger states—not at its inception and not today. Instead, it served to protect
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Hannah Arendt
“Society is the form in which the fact of mutual dependence for the sake of life and nothing else assumes public significance and where the activities connected with sheer survival are permitted to appear in public.”
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

Hannah Arendt
“I ended this study of active life with a curious sentence that Cicero ascribed to Cato, who used to say that “never is a man more active than when he does nothing, never is he less alone than when he is by himself’ (Numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret, numquam minus solum esse quam cum solus esset).7 Assuming Cato was right, the questions are obvious: What are we “doing” when we do nothing but think? Where are we when we, normally always surrounded by our fellow-men, are together with no one but ourselves?”
Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind: The Groundbreaking Investigation on How We Think

Hannah Arendt
“No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature’s wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.”
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

Hannah Arendt
“To anticipate, and put it in a nutshell: The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The”
Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind: The Groundbreaking Investigation on How We Think

Hannah Arendt
“For love, although it is one of the rarest occurrences in human lives,81 indeed possesses an unequaled power of self-revelation and an unequaled clarity of vision for the disclosure of who, precisely because it is unconcerned to the point of total unworldliness with what the loved person may be, with his qualities and shortcomings no less than with his achievements, failings, and transgressions. Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others.”
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

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