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"Something has happened to the fabric of society"
This essay contrasts Mister Rogers' vision of neighborliness with the harsh treatment of legal immigrants in the United States, focusing on the case of Kseniia Petrova. It explores how class resentment and institutional silence have enabled arbitrary cruelty toward those who came here to contribute.04-13-2025
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Friendship Versus Banality
George Prochnik explores the deep friendship between Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem.06-04-2017
"Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Arendt's Denktagebuch" Book Release and Panel Discussion
"Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Arendt's Denktagebuch" Book Release and Panel Discussion06-02-2017
Justice Thomas' Racial Fatalism
The Supreme Court this week ruled that two gerrymandered districts in North Carolina were unconstitutional because they were impermissibly drawn on racial grounds to dilute the vote of black Americans.05-28-2017
Words That Mean Nothing
Masha Gessen, who will be speaking at the Hannah Arendt Center Conference on "Crises of Democracy," turns to Hannah Arendt to understand Donald Trump's assault on language and our common world.05-21-2017
The Courage to Be: Tania Bruguera
Ana Bauer, Gemma Godfrey, and Loreli Mojica, HAC student fellows, share their thoughts on Tania Bruguera's visit for our spring 2017 "Courage to Be" Dinner and Lecture Series.05-19-2017
People's Assemblies
Kate Aronoff interviews Chokwe Antar Lumumba, who will likely be the next Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. Lumumba is an advocate of bringing "people's assemblies" back into government, a new way to rethink the idea of self-government.05-14-2017
Reactionism
Andrew Sullivan rightly sees that we are in the grip of reactionism, not conservatism. Reactionism is not simply about hatred or racism. It is illiberal, yes, but an indignant rejection of the status quo.05-07-2017
An Open Letter Addressing the May 3rd Living Room Conversation, From Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College
An Open Letter Addressing the May 3rd Living Room Conversation, From Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College05-03-2017
You Are Not An Experience
Ulrich Baer argues that the so-called "liberal snowflakes" are actually right, that free speech should be sacrificed in the name of securing the legitimacy of personal experience. He is mistaken, but worth taking seriously.04-30-2017