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Michael Weinman

Michael Weinman is Senior Lecturer of Political Science and Jewish Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of seven books, most recently The Political Theology of Hannah Arendt (2026), Hannah Arendt and Politics (2022), co-authored with philosopher Maria Robaszkiewicz, and The Emergence of Illiberalism (2020), co-edited with political scientist Boris Vormann.

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An Upper House: Anti-democratic Privilege or Savior of Republicanism?

August 25, 2026

Michael Weinman (Indiana University) Michael Weinman examines contemporary critiques of the United States Senate as an antidemocratic vestige of the slaveholding... Read more.

Relaunching the Democracy Seminar

January 19, 2026

Michael Weinman (Indiana University Bloomington) and Siobhan Kattago (University of Tartu) discuss the relaunch of Democracy Seminar 3.0 and the founding of the... Read more.

The Truth of The New Right

January 12, 2026

The Democracy Seminar relaunches with a renewed global mission: to connect scholars and democrats in confronting today’s mounting threats to democracy. In this... Read more.

What Hannah Arendt can teach us about today’s campus demonstrations

May 3, 2024

Tomorrow marks the 54 years since the National Guard fired live ammunition on students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. For three incredibly tense days last... Read more.