When society tell us we can ‘have it all’, a huge part of the division of labor is made invisible – the quiet and persistent overload that structures many women’s lives in the domestic sphere.

In times of political instability, readers have repeatedly turned to Hannah Arendt, more often for clarity than for comfort. Her work resurfaces whenever democratic norms begin to erode, insisting on the importance of learning how to think when familiar categories collapse. That task feels newly urgent today.