Help keep Salon independent

Topic: Hannah Arendt

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

America's slide into totalitarianism

Mike Lofgren
US President Donald Trump speaks during a "Keep America Great" campaign rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on August 15, 2019. (Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

Has Trump really built a "movement"?

Chauncey DeVega
(Getty/Rick Loomis)

"Incivility" and the rise of fascism

Henry A. Giroux
Adolf Hitler addresses a Nazi campaign rally, April 4, 1932. (Getty/Keystone)

How they made Germany great again

Andrew O'Hehir
(Getty/Mandel Ngan)

Philosopher: "Trump is evil"

Chauncey DeVega
Peter Weller as RoboCop in "RoboCop" (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios)

"RoboCop" is 30

John Semley
(Getty/Drew Angerer/P_Wei/Salon)

The right wing war on facts

Sophia A. McClennen
Donald Trump, Hannah Arendt (Reuters/Chris Keane/AP)

Is Donald Trump a new Hitler?

Andrew O'Hehir
(Reuters/Bernadett Szabo)

America's duty to refugees

Elias Isquith
(Reuters/Nir Elias/Baz Ratner/Salon)

The West’s selective amnesia

Falguni A. Sheth
Hannah Arendt, David Foster Wallace (AP/Hachette Book Group)

In defense of irony

Laura Miller

Ben Mauk - The American Reader

A glorious 1930s tragicomedy

Andrew O'Hehir
Wendy Lower (Björn Marquart)

Jacob Sugarman

"Hannah Arendt" still provokes

Andrew O'Hehir
Advertisement: