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The Risk of Total Divergence: Politicized Intelligence and Defactualization in the Age of Imminent War

In her 1971 essay "Lying in Politics," Hannah Arendt reflects on the publication of top-secret materials contained in a massive study entitled "History of U.S. Decision-Making Process on Vietnam Policy," a.k.a. the Pentagon Papers. As the title of her essay suggests, Arendt is concerned with the problem of political deception. However, it is not the lies that politicians may or may not tell that form the central theme of her essay. Instead, she focuses on what the Pentagon Papers tell us about the role of ideological thinking and self-deception in the development of U.S. policy bearing on Vietnam. In particular,...