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In the fall of 1970, Hannah Arendt delivered a series of lectures on Immanuel Kant’s political philosophy. She was scheduled to teach Kant again in the spring of 1976, though her death in December 1975 prevented her from doing so. Indeed, the fact of her untimely death is central to the story of Arendt’s Kant lectures – both their origin and the scholarly attention given to them.

In 2008 they gave their votes to Obama, who kept enough of them to win again in 2012. They favored Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2022. This year, America’s “white working class” could once again shape the outcome on Election Day. But who are these voters, and are they really so different from any other demographic?