A place for bold and risky thinking
The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College is the world's most expansive home for bold and risky humanities thinking about our political world inspired by the spirit of Hannah Arendt, the leading thinker of politics and active citizenship in the modern era.
Upcoming Events
- 5/06Thursday
Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
Hannah Arendt Center - 5/08Saturday
Between Past and Future: Reading and Discussion
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Online Event
Read This Week's Feature
An Attack on the Soul
Roger BerkowitzIn response to news that Howard University is disbanding its Classics Department, Cornell West reminds us that Frederick Douglas and the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. were inspired and nurtured by the classics. West argues that the attack on the classics is an attack on the soul and symptom the moral and spiritual rot of American culture.
04-22-2021