On Lying and PoliticsBy: Hannah Arendt More urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new introduction by David Bromwich No one, Hannah Arendt observed, has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue. But why do politicians lie? What is the relationship between political lies and self delusion? And how much organized deceit can a democracy endure before it ceases to function? Fifty