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THE JUSTICE DIALOGUES

The Justice Dialogues at The Democracy Institute bring on the Cal Poly Pomona campus national and international voices for sustained, thorough conversations on the global condition. The Dialogues focus on moral, aesthetic, and epistemic issues now confronting democratic politics and liberal democratic government on planetary scale. Among the emphases of the Dialogues are the morphing shapes of inequality and political violence, the perilous relationship between democracy and data, the place of race, caste, and class in planetary arguments about climate justice, and the future of civil disobedience and citizenship itself. How do we speak about these matters? And what sort of texts truly matter when we do?

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Hannah Arendt | The Origins of Totalitarianism

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

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