In Part One of this essay, I introduced the Balzan Prize for Humanity, Peace and Fraternity among Peoples, along with Hannah Arendt’s involvement in the potential selection of the 1963 prize winner. I highlighted that her correspondence with Dan Jacobson and Karl Jaspers regarding potential nominees...

On August 18, 1963, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) described in a letter to Dan Jacobson (1929-2014), a South African writer residing in London, what she believed was “the greatest difference between South Africa and the [United] States.” She had just returned from a rejuvenating vacation in Europe, only...

There is much talk about the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.   Opinions are divided and some politicians even go so far to suggest calling him a ‘terrorist”.  In his recent interview with Time when asked if he considered himself practicing civil disobedience, he has said that he is practicing civil obedience.

In his thoughtful and detailed response to my last blog postings, Lee Konstantinou further unfolds his initial remarks on my piece “The Terror of the Unforeseen: Speculative Fiction and Cinema after 1989”.

In two recent comments on my blog entry, The Terror of the Unforeseen, two wonderful young colleagues, Joel Burges (formerly Stanford, now MIT) and Lee Konstantinou (Stanford) raised important questions regarding my thoughts.