Lapham’s Quarterly

Introducing the Lapham's Quarterly archive: every page, every issue, from the Neolithic period to the Information Age.

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Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, c. 1050

Fear first made gods in the world.
—Statius, c. 90

Extracts: On Fear. Link in reply.

Benjamin Moser (@BenMoser123) on the pariahdom of Hannah Arendt. laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/con…

“The Anti-Defamation League sent out a nationwide circular urging rabbis to denounce Arendt from their pulpits during the high holy days, when they had the largest audiences of the year. . . . In Israel, [Eichmann in Jerusalem] was not published in Hebrew until 2000—several years after the first translation of Mein Kampf.”

Benjamin Moser on the pariahdom of Hannah Arendt. Link in reply.

“Hannah Arendt has been sanitized in a certain way now, as a kind of wise Jewish figure. In Germany, she’s probably the most read Jewish philosopher. Germany, with all its censorship of anti-Zionist viewpoints, has kind of adopted her. There’s a Hannah Arendt Strasse in every town in Germany.” –Benjamin Moser.

Ep. three of A Broken World is now available. Featuring Benjamin Moser and Benjamin A. Saltzman.

Link in reply.