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Luo Siling | Arendt’s Foresight and Lament for America Fifty Years Ago: Also On Prof. Moyn’s One-Sided Quotation and Misreading of Arendt
Editor’s Note:In May 1975, Hannah Arendt delivered the speech Home to Roost: A Bicentennial Address at the Bicentennial Forum held in Boston. The full text was published in the June 26, 1975 issue of The New York Review of Books.The speech attracted considerable attention for its unusually somber and profound tone. Unlike the blind optimism or “doctrinaire” reflections on the American system prevalent in mainstream academia at the time, Arendt offered a sharp critique of America’s “image politics” and “systematic lying,” which was highly provocative then. At the time, her prognosis for…
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