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The Need for Analogy
Peter E. Gordon writes a defense of historical analogy in the New York Review of Books. Gordon situates his considered argument against the backdrop of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issuing a blanket statement, refusing historical comparison to the Holocaust in response to Alexandra Ocasio Cortez calling the detention camps on the U.S. boarder “concentration camps” last year. — Samantha Hill01-15-2020
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What We're Reading
This week, we're reading tributes to Theodor Adorno and Toni Morrison08-11-2019
Gaffes on the Campaign Trail
By Roger BerkowitzJoe Biden made news with another racial gaffe when he said “We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.” John McWhorter argues that these gaffes, while problematic, are also indicative of a paradoxical tension around black achievement.
08-11-2019
Teaching Hannah Arendt Underground
By Samantha HillFor the past two days I’ve been teaching Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism for the tuition free summer school program at The University of the Underground and The Hannah Arendt Center, at The School for Poetic Computation in NYC. ..
08-04-2019
What We're Reading
This week we're reading Marilynne Robinson's essay, "Which Way to the City on a Hill?" in the The New York Review of Books.08-04-2019
The Four Prejudices Underlying Our Crises of Democracy
This essay by Roger Berkowitz was originally published in HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center.08-02-2019
Why Privacy Matters: Panel Eleven
A discussion from our 2015 Annual Conference: Why Privacy Matters: What Do We Lose When We Lose Our Privacy?08-02-2019
Time for Arendt
“In the last analysis, the human world is always the product of man’s amor mundi, a human artifice whose potential immortality is always subject to the mortality of those who build it and the natality of those who come to live in it.”08-02-2019
Agnes Heller: 12 May, 1929 – 19 July, 2019
Roger Berkowitz writes in memoriam of the holocaust survivor and Arendt scholar.07-21-2019
A Letter from Roger Berkowitz
When you join the Hannah Arendt Center, you become part of a global community of thinkers, philosophers, and activists dedicated to understanding and loving the world as it is. Please read this special letter from our Academic Director, Roger Berkowitz to learn why your membership is so important, now more than ever.07-19-2019