The Origins of Totalitarianism

Is It a Relationship if No One’s on the Other Side?

The Ezra Klein Show, 14 October 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 16 min in.

Sherry Turkle names this as her second of three book picks, saying Arendt is "having a moment." She cites Arendt's warning that agency can be stripped from people who lose a sense of community, neighbor, and civic belonging, connecting it directly to her fear that AI and social fragmentation are placing democracy in real danger now.

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