The Thick Line

On the impossibility of coming to terms with a dark past

"We split away the history of our recent past with a thick line. We will be responsible only for what we have done to help extract Poland from her current predicament from now on."  – Tadeusz Masowiecki As Poland’s first post-Communist prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki sought to draw a thick line between the ...
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The Thick Line

Women and Men in Dark Times (Syllabus Included)

University Lectures at The New School

Elżbieta Matynia and I are teaching a special university wide course for undergraduates this semester, inspired by our favorite political thinker, Hannah Arendt, and her illuminating collection, Men in Dark Times. The course is a response to the present political moment. We, as did she, live in “dark times.” And as ...
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Women and Men in Dark Times (Syllabus Included)