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Victorianist, Le Guin lover, B-Sides editor at Public Books, co-host of Recall This Book and Novel Dialogue. Chicken owner.
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175 The Caste Pod: a Crossover episode with Ajantha Subramanian (JP)

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By Elizabeth Ferry, John Plotz
| New Books Network
In the spirit of Hannah Arendt's natality principle (that new things are always and should always be being born, each one unique and endowed with limitless potential) we at RTB love it when a new podcast appears. Especially one as thoughtful and original as The Caste Pod, which assembles scholars and activists to make sense of what caste is, how it's experienced and how it has travelled globally.
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Arendt in Dark Times

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By Sarah Wasserman, John Plotz, Geraldo L. Cadava
| Public Books
Arendt sees the oasis as a way to save our self-understanding from the psychological cry of adjustment as well as the totalitarian demand for conformity.
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Arendt’s Refugee Politics

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By John Plotz
| buff.ly
In an age of rising authoritarianism, it is no shock that Hannah Arendt should be returning to syllabi and bestseller lists. A ruthless critic of ethnic nationalism and all the evils that follow from it, Arendt argues in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and elsewhere that the racism that fueled European imperialism’s overseas outrages logically precedes the enormities of the Holocaust.
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