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Temptations of Tyranny
Rod Dreher’s conflicted support for President Trump illustrates a broader crisis among intellectual conservatives who fear the "soft totalitarianism" of liberal institutions yet embrace the hard authoritarianism of executive overreach. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s political thought, the essay contends that true freedom is preserved not through charismatic leaders but through the multiplication and decentralization of citizen power. Revitalizing democracy, it argues, requires stubborn, local acts of collective governance rather than the dangerous temptation to concentrate authority in a single figure.04-27-2025
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The Microbiome
By Roger BerkowitzMatt 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.
04-14-2019
Secrets and Sins
By Roger BerkowitzThe 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.
04-14-2019
Courage to Be Student Essay: Livy Marie Donahue on Deogratias Niyizonkiza
By Livy Marie DonahueDeogratias Niyizonkiza visited Bard College on March 4th, as the second speaker of the 2019
Courage to Be lecture series.
04-11-2019
No Crisis, But a Danger
By Roger BerkowitzThe folks at PEN ask, is there a crisis of free speech on college campuses. And once again, they answer “no.”
04-07-2019
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.04-02-2019
Courage to Be Student Essays. Misbah Awan on Rana Abdelhamid
By Misbah AwanA dispatch from the Hannah Arendt Center's Courage to Be Dinner and Lecture Series.
03-30-2019