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A timely guide on how to live�and think�through the challenges of our century drawn from the life and thought of political theorist Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century�s foremost opponents of totalitarianism �We are free to change the world and to start something new in it.��Hannah Arendt The violent unease of today�s world would have been familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migration: She lived through them all. Born in the first decade of the last century, she escaped fascist Europe to make a new life for herself in America, where she became one of its most influential�and controversial�public intellectuals. She wrote about power and terror, exile and love, and above all, about freedom. Questioning�thinking�was her first defense against tyranny. She advocated a politics of action and plurality, courage and, when necessary, disobedience. We Are Free to Change the World is a book about the Arendt we need for the twenty-first century. It tells us how and why Arendt came to think the way she did, and how to think when our own politics goes off the rails. Both a guide to Arendt�s life and work, and its dialogue with our troubled present, We Are Free to Change the World is an urgent call for us to think, as Hannah Arendt did�unflinchingly, lovingly, and defiantly�through our own unpredictable times.