The real reset

IN times like this, we need people who tell hard truths while insisting that the present state of our politics is not permanent. On the one hand, White House aide Stephen Miller says that “we live in a world that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power”, and on the other, philosopher Hannah Arendt says that “out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power”. In her 1970 book On Violence, Arendt stresses that violence is not a form of power but its…