Real Research

Since political theorists rarely have the need/opportunity to do archival research (or at least the ones I know), since I'm right at the end of my chapter on Hannah Arendt (!), I decided to go down to the Library of Congress to have a look at the digital archives last week. The funny thing is, much of the digital archives are available online, but the particular things that I wanted to see aren't, so I had to go down there to get on a computer to see it. Which of course is no problem, since the Library of Congress is so close. Oh what a nerd I am that I would get a kick out of this! I also looked up, just for fun, some of her correspondence with W.H. Auden and some of the notes she took on reading Oakeshott.