Power Is a Privilege, Not a Burden

Power Is a Privilege, Not a Burden

Hannah Arendt in 1949. (Photo by Fred Stein Archive/Archive Photos via Getty Images.)This article is brought to you by American Purpose, the magazine and community founded by Francis Fukuyama in 2020, which is proudly part of the Persuasion family.In 1941, the German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt fled totalitarianism in Europe for New York City. Her transatlantic escape propelled a lifelong inquiry into the nature of political power—a line of…