The Reading Room
On The Open Society and Its Enemies
Karl Popper called The Open Society and Its Enemies his war work.
On The Open Society and Its Enemies
Karl Popper called The Open Society and Its Enemies his war work.
On The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt escaped the catastrophe and then spent her life explaining it.
On The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt escaped the catastrophe and then spent her life explaining it.
On The Human Condition
If The Origins of Totalitarianism shows what is destroyed when freedom fails, The Human Condition shows what is lost.
On The Human Condition
If The Origins of Totalitarianism shows what is destroyed when freedom fails, The Human Condition shows what is lost.
On Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
This is the book that made abolition undeniable, because no one could read it and still pretend.
On Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
This is the book that made abolition undeniable, because no one could read it and still pretend.
On What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
It may be the greatest American speech, and it is an indictment.
On What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
It may be the greatest American speech, and it is an indictment.
On Uncle Tom's Cabin
This is the novel that moved a nation toward war by making readers feel, in their own parlors, the cruelty they had managed not to see.
On Uncle Tom's Cabin
This is the novel that moved a nation toward war by making readers feel, in their own parlors, the cruelty they had managed not to see.