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The power of ordinary people facing totalitarianism

  • Written by Kathleen B. Jones, Professor Emerita of Women's Studies, emphasis on politics, San Diego State University
imageA 1969 photo of political theorist and scholar Hannah Arendt. AP Photo

In the weeks since the election of President Donald J. Trump, sales of George Orwell’s “1984” have skyrocketed. But so have those of a lesser-known title, “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” by a German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt.

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