Mir Ali Hosseini is a PhD candidate in British and North American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Freiburg, where he studies mid-twentieth-century intellectual history and the essay form. He is the co-editor of The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021).
More than sixty years ago, in 1959, Dissent’s editors decided to publish Hannah Arendt’s “Reflections on Little Rock,” emphasizing that they nevertheless found the piece “entirely mistaken.”[i]