Articles

University in Exile

By Roger Berkowitz
Samantha Hill reviews a new book by Judith Friedlander about the history of the New School for Social Research and the “University in Exile” that saved so many European intellectuals, including Hannah Arendt. (free registration required)

The Conservative Coates

By Roger Berkowitz
Wil S. Hylton interviews Paul Coates. Coates was a Black Panther Party leader in Baltimore in the late 1960s and early ’70s. He founded a prison literacy program, owned of a bookstore devoted to community service, and established the publishing company Black Classic Press to disseminate the work of...

Left Totalitarianism?

By Roger Berkowitz
I continually hope that the right-wing narrative about left-wing intolerance (and even left-wing totalitarianism) is overblown. As a professor at Bard College—a liberal arts college that welcomes and relishes difficult conversations—I hope that the trend of censoring right-wing views is overblown and a passing fad.

Fear of Fascism

By Samantha Hill
Jacob Mikanowski profiles Timothy Snyder for The Chronicle Review. Snyder is a historian of the Holocaust and professor at Yale University. His new work, The Road to Unfreedom, chronicles the rise of authoritarianism today.

The Microbiome

By Roger Berkowitz
Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs report on one of the greatest threats to our way of life, the rise of bacteria and fungi that are impervious to medications. The culprit, as with so much in our modern health and environmental crises, is the overuse of antibiotics and antifungal medications  in farming.

Secrets and Sins

By Roger Berkowitz
The New York Times is running a series of articles on privacy called the Privacy Project.  James Martin has an excellent essay on the double way that privacy is addressed in the Bible.

Courage to Be Student Essay: Livy Marie Donahue on Deogratias Niyizonkiza

By Livy Marie Donahue
Deogratias Niyizonkiza visited Bard College on March 4th, as the second speaker of the 2019
Courage to Be lecture series.

No Crisis, But a Danger

By Roger Berkowitz
The folks at PEN ask, is there a crisis of free speech on college campuses. And once again, they answer “no.”

Student Fellow Opportunities

The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities is hiring fellows to work on the Campus Plurality Forum projects Tough Talks and Dorm Room Conversations for the 2019-2020 Academic Year.