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Distinguished Writer in Residence Masha Gessen Interviews Russian Opposition Leader Alexey Navalny on His Poisoning, Recovery, and Plans to Return to Russia
“In the last two years, the pressure has really ramped up. Our offices have been raided by law enforcement repeatedly. There have been a number of criminal prosecutions. They tried to crush our nationwide structure, which they perceive as the biggest threat to their power. We are the victims of our own success. They saw that the organization can’t be beaten down, so they decided to seek a final solution,” Navalny tells Gessen in the New Yorker. More >
Samantha Rose Hill on Hannah Arendt’s Beliefs about Loneliness, Ideology, and Totalitarianism
“Totalitarianism uses isolation to deprive people of human companionship, making action in the world impossible, while destroying the space of solitude,” writes Hill in Aeon. “The iron-band of totalitarianism, as Arendt calls it, destroys man’s ability to move, to act, and to think, while turning each individual in his lonely isolation against all others, and himself. The world becomes a wilderness, where neither experience nor thinking are possible.” More >
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