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Dear Reader, Hello from Taos, New Mexico. Last week I made it through Kansas, Colorado, and finally arrived in Taos a day ago. Here’s a photo I took of Pike’s Peak. I wish the new Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma was open. I would have swung down from Kansas. Still tempted…

May 8

Dear Reader, It’s Wednesday. And it has been a busy week. I left Upstate New York and began a month long research trip for my book on loneliness that will take me from Maryland to California. I’m looking forward to sharing some of the journey with you along the way.

Apr 27

May 11

Dear Reader, For the past six years my desk has faced this window. And today, with the help of some very good people, I packed it up and stored it away. When I finished emptying out the drawers, all that remained was this thumb drive of Hannah Arendt’s archive that I used while…

Apr 10

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Apr 5

Dear Reader, It is Sunday again. The peepers are singing in the woods, and I am packing my library. If you’ve never read Walter Benjamin’s essay…

Apr 3

Dear Reader, Happy Wednesday from Washington, DC! I’m in town for an event tonight with the German journalist Mohamed Amjahid as part of the Thinking is…

Mar 30

Dear Reader, I spent the first half of the week in Valparaiso, Indiana talking about loneliness, and the second half of the week finishing up The…

Mar 27

Dear Reader, I have a special essay to share with you this week. For Thinking is Dangerous, novelist Madeleine Thien reflects on “The Many Friendships…

Mar 23

Dear Reader, Happy spring! Finally, winter is gone. Here’s a picture of Hannah Arendt enjoying some sun. And a bit of Emily Dickinson: "A Light exists…

Mar 20

Dear Reader, For the past year I have been working with the Goethe Institut to create a series of events under the heading Hannah Arendt: Thinking is…

Mar 16

Dear Reader, This week, one of my favorite archival documents: Hannah Arendt’s FBI file. I was reminded of it this week as I was going through Arendt’s…

Mar 13

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Illuminations by Samantha Rose Hill

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