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Lying as Politics in the Age of Trump

What Hannah Arendt does, and does not, anticipate under a deeply vicious presidency

October 23, 2018 • by Mary G. Dietz

Reading Hannah Arendt’s Crises of the Republic in the Age of Trump: A Symposium Hannah Arendt’s Crises of the Republic is not so much a book as a collection, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1972, of three essays and an interview that first appeared, individually, in the years between 1969 and 1971. Three of ...

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Why Nietzsche is Not Responsible for Donald Trump

The Post-Truth Perspective

August 31, 2017 • by Emmanuel Alloa

This is a true story. The acclaimed TV series Fargo starts off exactly in the same way as the movie of the same name in 1996. Just as the cult film by the Coen brothers, the TV drama whose first season was aired in 2014 displays the warning “This is a true story.” ...

Why Nietzsche is Not Responsible for Donald Trump

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Who’s Afraid of the Post-factual?

From Alternative Truth to True Alternatives

July 9, 2017 • by Emmanuel Alloa

Kellyanne Conway, the advisor to President Donald Trump, must be credited for having coined a new philosophical concept: alternative facts. When confronted with the episode in which White House press Secretary Sean Spicer had grossly misstated the figures concerning the people present at the presidential inauguration, Conway disputed that Spicer ...

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The Political Implications of Crowding Out the Facts with Trump’s Alternative Universe

January 27, 2017 • by Sanford Schram

At the end of his first full day as President, Trump dispatched his press secretary Sean Spicer to make a statement in the White House press room claiming that the press was being dishonest, even manipulating photos, in order to deny Trump’s claims that the day before on the Washington ...