> .. layers of irony.. Hundreds of people at this point have said that #HannahArendt would not be eligible for the #HannahArendtPrize. But I was also corresponding with this philosopher, #SusanNeiman — an #IsraeliCitizen who lives in #Germany who is a premier scholar of German politics of memory — and she wrote to me saying #Arendt wouldn’t even be able to get a visa to come to Germany, if she needed a visa of course.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/16/masha-gessen-israel-holocaust-00132132
/HT @dbattistella
#MashaGessen