Hannah Arendt’s Resonant Warning About Public Lying in the Age of Anthony Fauci

In the most recent issue of The New Yorker, there is a long, reflective essay on Hannah Arendt, one of the 20th century’s most important analysts of the forces that give rise to totalitarianism. The essay emphasized Arendt’s most important insight on the danger of pervasive lying by government officials. She…