I have served my country in uniform and flown MEDEVAC helicopters to save the lives of people who think I shouldn’t exist. And none of it matters.
Every once a while I encounter a
quote that brings me up short and helps reframe how I see the world. Such was
the case when I came across this quote by Theodor Adorno as I researched the
rise of Nazi Germany and the origins of the Holocaust: “A wrong life cannot be
lived rightly.”Adorno meant it as a critique of life under capitalism, but out of context, I interpreted it to
Image by Bernd Schwabe, via Wikimedia Commons When Eichmann in Jerusalem—Hannah Arendt’s book about Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann’s…
Robert Jay Lifton changed how I think about the world and about my family.
This is one of those moments in history.
History may not repeat itself, but it echoes, and the 1930s taught us why symbolism matters. Fascism did not arrive with a single…
Effective opposition calls for a laser focus on change, no matter how small. We should consider these activists’ examples
Few political thinkers have left behind a quote as unsettling as this one. At first glance, it appears simple.
