Articles

Immortality and Politics

Roger Berkowitz writes about immortality, Arendt, and Amber Scorah's reflections on grief.

In Memoriam:
Jacques Taminiaux
 

By Jerome Kohn
I met Jacques Taminiaux in 1978 in Monteripido, where the Collegium Phenomenologicum gathered for six weeks in June and July. Monteripido is a Franciscan monastery -- a calm and beautiful place -- eight hundred years old, built in stone high above the fortress city of Perugia, Umbria, italy. It is the oldest Franciscan monastery after Assisi in which St. Francis lived and died. When the sky is clear one can see from Monteripido to Assisi. 

Leadership and Academic Freedom

Roger Berkowitz writes about the Wall Street Journal's coverage of strong leadership and engaged debate at Bard College.

Taking White Interests Seriously?

By Roger Berkowitz
Isaac Chotiner of The New Yorker  interviews Eric Kauffman about his new book Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities. Kauffman’s book looks analyzes a double insight...

A Eulogy for Jacques Taminiaux

By Kazue Koishikawa
Jacques Taminiaux, professor emeritus in philosophy at the University of Louvain and Boston College, passed away on May 7^th, 2019 at the age of 90 years.  As those familiar with continental philosophy know, he left a tremendous legacy in the field of phenomenology from Husserl and Heidegger to Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Arendt, and more.

Diversity Index

By Samantha Hill
Thomas Chatterton Williams responds to the SATs new adversity index which will factor in social conditions like neighborhood and crime rates. Chatterton Williams argues that this index is a Band-Aid solution that will not address the structural inequalities that students face. He writes...

A Disjunctive or  Disruptive President?

By Roger Berkowitz
Jack Balkin of Yale Law School recently described Donald Trump as a disjunctive president. Using a model developed by Stephen Skowroneck, Balkin argues that Trump represents the “last gasp of the vanishing Reagan era that began in 1980.” He writes...

Not All Populisms Are the Same

By Samantha Hill
Writing for the Boston Review, Jason Frank argues that we should reassess the popular use of the term populism to describe a wide range of emergent illiberal political regimes from Orban’s Hungary to Trump’s United States.

Friends of Academia

By Roger Berkowitz
Randall Kennedy writes that all “friends of academia” must sound the alarm in response to Harvard University’s decision to remove Ronald Sullivan and his wife Stephanie Robinson as Faculty Dean’s of the undergraduate college’s Winthrop House.