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Founder and academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College.
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Read
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
talk from last April at the PolyOpportunity Retreat in the Hudson Valley.
houseofbeautifulbusiness.substack.com/p/sometimes-...
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Sometimes We Have to Choose Humanity Over Justice
Roger Berkowitz on Hannah Arendt, world alienation, and why we need friendships in which we can tell inappropriate jokes
https://houseofbeautifulbusiness.substack.com/p/sometimes-we-have-to-choose-humanity?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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De Gruyter Brill Philosophy
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VERSTEHEN WAS IST. Ein Tag fĂĽr
#HannahArendt
mit
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
im Gespräch mit Antonia Grunenberg über "Die Zerstörung der Freiheit und die Fähigkeit zum Neubeginn". ...und unsere Bücher sind auch dabei!
@hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social
#Arendt
#PoliticalTheory
#Freedom
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
30 days ago
In this week's essay for
#AmorMundi
,
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
discusses Friendship and the Foundations of Politics. Find it on Medium here:
medium.com/amor-mundi/f...
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Friendship and the Foundations of Politics
by Roger Berkowitz
https://medium.com/amor-mundi/friendship-and-the-foundations-of-politics-4b24d4043edb
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So glad you listen and enjoy!
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
about 1 month ago
In his most recent essay,
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
explores how confirmation bias presses us to choose between truth and power. Read more at
medium.com/amor-mundi/t...
#HannahArendt
#truth
#power
#AmorMundi
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The Bitter Pill of Post-Truth: Learning to Live in Plurality
by Roger Berkowitz
https://medium.com/amor-mundi/the-bitter-pill-of-post-truth-learning-to-live-in-plurality-4ff97e5e2193
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
about 1 month ago
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the death of one of the 20th century's most influential political thinkers, Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 - December 4, 1975). What
#HannahArendt
book has most impacted your thinking?
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
@tbartscherer.bsky.social
#AmorMundi
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
about 2 months ago
New episode of Reading
#HannahArendt
with
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
is out now! Find it on
hac.podbean.com
or wherever you get your podcasts.
youtu.be/U5hTi1wb5I8?...
Just a couple more sessions with On Revolution before we post lots of great conversations before our next read!
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Foundation II: Novus Ordo Saeclorum | On Revolution, Chapter 5 #HannahArendt #podcast #shorts
YouTube video by Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College
https://youtu.be/U5hTi1wb5I8?si=xAa5SnVD3Gt1d_Oa
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Jason Goroncy
2 months ago
On
#teaching
: “While critical thinking is an important skill, what teachers teach … is enthusiasm and a love of
#learning
. The great teachers are the lovers of learning. What they teach, above all, is the experience of discovery.” –
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
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On Teaching
by Roger Berkowitz
https://medium.com/amor-mundi/on-teaching-e1ad2018abb3
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
2 months ago
New episode of "Reading Hannah Arendt with
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
" out now! Find it wherever you get your podcasts!
#HannahArendt
youtube.com/shorts/dhCkY...
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Foundation I: Constitution Liberatis | On Revolution, Chapter 4 #hannaharendt #podcast
YouTube video by Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College
https://youtube.com/shorts/dhCkYmOZYYg?si=0LrrWnJiYEzxw1iL
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
3 months ago
Why do we need JOY and how did we come to curate this year’s
#ArendtCon2025
speakers? Hear
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
go in-depth on
@wamcradio.bsky.social
with Joe Donahue.
#HannahArendt
#JoyInDarkTimes
www.wamc.org/podcast/the-...
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The Hannah Arendt Center presents "JOY: Loving the World in Dark Times" on 10/16-10/17
The Hannah Arendt Center's 17th annual fall conference, “JOY: Loving the World in Dark Times,” will offer a crucial lens for finding meaning and connection amidst today's fractured world. Bringing tog...
https://www.wamc.org/podcast/the-roundtable/2025-10-01/the-hannah-arendt-center-presents-joy-loving-the-world-in-dark-times-on-10-16-10-17
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Rebecca Taylor FRSA
3 months ago
Book 135: The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt h/t to
@hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
for choosing this for book club / prompting me to revisit this brilliant text. If only we hadn’t lost her before she penned JUDGING…
#booksky
#bookchallenge
#philsky
#academicsky
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
3 months ago
Join us tonight at 6p for a film screening of
#HannahArendt
Facing Tyranny at
@bardcollege.bsky.social
! With snacks and Q&A with the film makers,
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
, and Leon Botstein.
hac.bard.edu/hannah-arend...
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Hannah Arendt Facing Tyranny Screening and Discussion
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny takes a closer look at one of the most fearless political writers of modern times. This is a rare opportunity to watch the film, which is being introduced by award-winnin...
https://hac.bard.edu/hannah-arendt-facing-tyranny-screening-and-discussion
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
4 months ago
View our new conference commercial and register to join us in October at
hac.bard.edu
at
@bardcollege.bsky.social
youtu.be/ZfIqgkUFGEs?...
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
#arendtcon2025
#joyindarktimes
#hannaharendt
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JOY Conference Trailer #shorts
YouTube video by Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College
https://youtu.be/ZfIqgkUFGEs?feature=shared
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
4 months ago
Thanks to
@wamcradio.bsky.social
for having
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
back on The Roundtable yesterday! Listen here:
www.wamc.org/podcast/the-...
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9/17/25 Panel
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Professo...
https://www.wamc.org/podcast/the-roundtable/2025-09-17/9-17-25-panel
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
4 months ago
New episode of Reading
#HannahArendt
with
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
out now on
hac.podbean.com
! We just finished our reading of "The Life of the Mind" and today we start "On Revolution." Learn more at
hac.bard.edu
.
youtube.com/shorts/YFV3L...
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Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind, Book II Willing, Conclusions, Sections 13, 14, and 15 #shorts
YouTube video by Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
4 months ago
Our
#VirtualReadingGroup
starts a new book this week! Join now, or listen later on the
#podcast
#ReadingHannahArendt
with
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/SVURV...
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The Hannah Arendt Center Virtual Reading Group begins a new book this week, On Revolution #shorts
YouTube video by Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College
https://youtube.com/shorts/SVURVAr9WEg?feature=shared
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
4 months ago
In this bonus episode of our podcast, host
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
reads from and discusses his two recent essays. (Find them on Medium and in the podcast show notes!) Out now at
hac.podbean.com
.
#philosophy
#politics
#illiberalism
#Stalinism
#Maoism
#Trumpism
#ReadingHannahArendt
#podcast
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On the Maoist and Stalinist roots and f Trumpism
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4 months ago
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Thanks
@jasongoroncy.bsky.social
and
@sallydouglas.bsky.social
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Commentary: A chilling silence as rights, and people, vanish
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Commentary: A chilling silence as rights, and people, vanish
As ICE spreads out across America, cracks are forming in the rule of law.
https://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/commentary-chilling-silence-rights-people-20807225.php
5 months ago
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On Tyranny, Its Causes, and Our Personal Responsibility
by Roger Berkowitz
https://medium.com/amor-mundi/on-tyranny-its-causes-and-our-personal-responsibility-411f12a41c07
5 months ago
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
5 months ago
New episode of Reading
#HannahArendt
with
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
out now on your favorite
#podcast
platform! This week’s philosophical debate: memory!
youtube.com/shorts/m8gcP...
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Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind, Book II Willing, Chapter 3, Sections 11 and 12 #short
YouTube video by Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College
https://youtube.com/shorts/m8gcPb4Zs3s?feature=shared
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Thanks
@jasongoroncy.bsky.social
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5 months ago
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thrilled to be on the
@laphamsquarterly.bsky.social
podcast with Donovan Hohn. Great conversation about Civil Disobedience.
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5 months ago
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Lapham’s Quarterly
5 months ago
This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn sits down for a conversation with
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
.
www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
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Episode 9: Roger Berkowitz
The latest episode of The World in Time.
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/episode-9-roger-berkowitz
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Gerrymandering, JĂĽnger, total war, and the threat to the republic.
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When Politics Becomes “Maximum Warfare, Everywhere, All the Time”
by Roger Berkowitz
https://medium.com/amor-mundi/when-politics-becomes-maximum-warfare-everywhere-all-the-time-c5770410178c
5 months ago
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ICE is expanding into something colder, harder, more dangerous. Disappearances. Masks. Silence. Hannah Arendt warned what comes next. Read my latest: Dangerous Ice, featuring Sophie Cabot Black’s haunting poem. @sophiecabotblac
medium.com/p/ed9c707ad212
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Dangerous Ice
by Roger Berkowitz
https://medium.com/p/ed9c707ad212
5 months ago
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In amor mundi we kid poetry and horror. Arendt and Ice. Https://conta.cc/4lRgOHg
5 months ago
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How to be Decent in an Indecent society. You need to listen to Ian Buruma on this essential question.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
@marcishore.bsky.social
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6 months ago
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Samantha Fazekas' "Hannah Arendt's Unwritten Chapter on Judging" is fantastic. The inaugural volume in the new Series "Thinking With Arendt". Absolutely essential reading.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
@arendtedition.bsky.social
@hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social
@samantharhill.bsky.social
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6 months ago
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civil disobedience are not peripheral to democratic life, but lie at the very heart of American democracy.
www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
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@arendtedition.bsky.social
@bardcollege.bsky.social
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Hannah Arendt taught us that civil disobedience is essential to American democracy | American Masters | PBS
Scholar Roger Berkowitz shares how Hannah Arendt saw civil disobedience as a collective and political act that renews democracy by holding power
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/hannah-arendt-taught-us-that-civil-disobedience-is-essential-to-american-democracy/36201/
6 months ago
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How to live as a decent person in an indecent society. Ian Buruma asks the right questions.
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6 months ago
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Why it is wrong to call Zohran Mamdani an antisemitism but right to be worried about the antisemitism of the movement he participates in.
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6 months ago
Subscribe to our weekly newsletter
#AmorMundi
for more insights from
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
on
#HannahArendt
medium.com/amor-mundi/a...
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Antisemitism and the Anti-Semite: Accusation and Ideology
by Roger Berkowitz
https://medium.com/amor-mundi/antisemitism-and-the-anti-semite-accusation-and-ideology-040fa16c5ae9
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Cliff Harbour
6 months ago
It was excellent! Just the right pitch and tone. And, kudos to
@samantharhill.bsky.social
@lyndseystonebri.bsky.social
&
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
They were great and are great guides to discovering Arendt! Thank you to PBS and everyone involved. Now,… where to begin with reading Arendt?
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Jay Rosen
6 months ago
I had high expectations for the PBS documentary on Hannah Arendt, which premiered last night.
www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
They were exceeded. "Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny" excelled in doing just what the title says. Facing it. If you watched last night, feel free to share your reactions.
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Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny - About the documentary | American Masters | PBS
Discover Hannah Arendt, who transformed her time as a political prisoner during World War II into daring insights about totalitarianism.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/hannah-arendt-documentary/36135/
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I had so much fun giving this TEDX talk on why we need to speak our minds. Thanks to the Bard TEDX team.
@hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social
@bardcollege.bsky.social
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Why free speech (and listening) matter | Roger Berkowitz | TEDxBard College
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
https://youtu.be/VIDTjiBj7WA
7 months ago
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Enjoy this conversation with @jamesfishkin about deliberative democracy and citizens assemblies.
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7 months ago
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7 months ago
"For Arendt, civil disobedience is the political activity of organized dissent against patently unjust and unconstitutional government action." -
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
in this week's
#AmorMundi
essay.
medium.com/amor-mundi/o...
Subscribe to the newsletter at
hac.bard.edu
.
#HannahArendt
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Optimism in Dark Times
by Roger Berkowitz
https://medium.com/amor-mundi/optimism-in-dark-times-1233e2f6b67c
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
7 months ago
New episode of Reading
#HannahArendt
with
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
out now!
youtube.com/shorts/fia5Z...
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Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz, The Life of the Mind, Chapter 3, Sections 18-19 #shorts
YouTube video by Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College
https://youtube.com/shorts/fia5Zf_yo4c?feature=shared
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
7 months ago
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
asked Zephyr Teachout, Professor at Fordham + author of "Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United," to weigh in on the current
#ageofcorruption
. Read the interview at
medium.com/amor-mundi/c...
Subscribe to our newsletter
#AmorMundi
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Corruption and the Breaking of Democracy: An Interview with Zephyr Teachout
by Roger Berkowitz
https://medium.com/amor-mundi/corruption-and-the-breaking-of-democracy-an-interview-with-zephyr-teachout-6cee3db86316
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
7 months ago
“Today, what animates voters is not only economic pain or prosperity—it's the rage against hypocrisy.”
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
in this week’s essay for
#amormundi
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The Age of Hypocrisy
by Roger Berkowitz
https://medium.com/amor-mundi/the-age-of-hypocrisy-0321c3d7c78a
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
7 months ago
Check out the latest highlights from our publications:
medium.com/@arendt_cent...
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
#HannahArendt
#democracy
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Weekly Insights from our Publications
Take a look at the latest highlights from the Hannah Arendt Center:
https://medium.com/@arendt_center/weekly-insights-from-our-publications-906d9c48381f
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Anthony Zacharzewski
8 months ago
I can certainly imagine an active v passive divide. I was at an interesting session at
@egmontinstitute.bsky.social
yesterday with
@hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social
talking democracy being something that needs some degree of effort to be meaningful.
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
8 months ago
New episode out now! Find Reading
#HannahArendt
with
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
wherever you get your
#podcasts
! Sneak peek here:
youtube.com/shorts/rAlGp...
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Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz, The Life of the Mind, Chapter 3, Sections 14-15
YouTube video by Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College
https://youtube.com/shorts/rAlGpzUMpmk?feature=shared
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
8 months ago
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
, professor of political studies and human rights and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center at
@bardcollege.bsky.social
, wrote a Times Union op-ed defending the role that joy plays during dark times.
#ArendtCon2025
www.bard.edu/news/joy-def...
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“Joy Is an Act of Defiance”: Op-Ed by Roger Berkowitz Featured in Times Union
Roger Berkowitz, professor of political studies and human rights and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard, wrote a Times Union op-ed defending the role that joy plays during dark time...
https://www.bard.edu/news/joy-defiance-op-ed-roger-berkowitz-times-union-2025-05-20
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
8 months ago
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
, in this weekend’s newsletter, explores what makes us think. Read it here and subscribe to
#amormundi
.
medium.com/amor-mundi/t...
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The New Phalarian Bull and the Retreat from Reality
by Roger Berkowitz
https://medium.com/amor-mundi/the-new-phalarian-bull-and-retreat-from-reality-5ddf4e07a11b
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
8 months ago
Highlights from the Hannah Arendt Center:
medium.com/@arendt_cent...
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
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Highlights from the Hannah Arendt Center
Take a look at some of the latest from our publications:
https://medium.com/@arendt_center/highlights-from-the-hannah-arendt-center-1532621e7395
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
8 months ago
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
discusses why JOY is this year's
#ArendtCon2025
theme in yesterday's
#AmorMundi
newsletter:
medium.com/amor-mundi/t...
Subscribe at
hac.bard.edu
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The Radical Politics of Joy
by Roger Berkowitz
https://medium.com/amor-mundi/the-radical-politics-of-joy-04cc5c3970a5
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Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
8 months ago
ANNOUNCING OUR 2025 FALL CONFERENCE THEME! Check out our website for more details at
hac.bard.edu
. 🤗 Stay tuned here and in our weekly newsletter for more this summer!
#HannahArendt
#AmorMundi
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