How Democracies Die

Politics, Reviews

July 12, 2018/By Darrell Arnold

We all know of democratic institutions that have ended by revolution or coup. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, two professors of government at Harvard University, highlight another way that they increasingly end -- through...

American Nightmare. Donald Trump, Media Spectacle, and Authoritarian Populism

Politics, Reviews

July 9, 2018/By Darrell Arnold

Donald Trump developed skills in marketing and show business, as a savvy self-marketer and a reality TV star, able to exploit new media -- to plaster his name on the side of buildings, on...

Why Read Hannah Arendt Now

Politics, Reviews

July 8, 2018/By Darrell Arnold

Freedom -- as Hannah Arendt understands it -- is only possible in a participatory political life. Such a form of life, which cultivates individuality and spontaneity, can be contrasted with totalitarianism, which ultimately aims...

Review of Lee McIntyre’s Post-Truth

Politics, Reviews

June 25, 2018/By Darrell Arnold

In 2016, the Oxford dictionary chose the term "post-truth" as its word of the year. It defined it as "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public...

Review of Andrew Feenberg’s Philosophy of Praxis

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June 24, 2015/By Darrell Arnold

Philosophy in Review has published my review of Andrew Feenberg's The Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Lukács and the Frankfurt School. Feenberg's unique position among later generation critical theorists in philosophy of technology is well-known....

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