[Unedited] Lyndsey Stonebridge with Krista Tippett

Published: June 21, 2018, 6:34 p.m.

Nothing is helping us more right now, as we watch human tragedies unfold on the U.S.-Mexican border and elsewhere, than a conversation Krista had last year with literary historian Lyndsey Stonebridge \u2014 on thinking and friendship in dark times. She applies the moral clarity of the 20th-century philosopher Hannah Arendt to now \u2014 an invitation to dwell on the human essence of events we analyze as political and economic. Our dramas of exile and displacement are existential, she says \u2014 about who we will all be as people and political community. What Arendt called the \u201cbanality of evil\u201d was at root an inability to hear another voice. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode \u201cThe Moral World in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt for Now \u2014 Lyndsey Stonebridge.\u201d Find more at onbeing.org.