Featured Article
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
All Categories
What We're Reading
This week, Roger Berkowitz is reading Chiara Ricciardone and Robert Kehoe07-19-2019
Geuss, Habermas, and the Rose of Unreason
Martin Jay brings his perspective to the ongoing debate over Raymond Geuss's piece on Jurgen Habermas.07-19-2019
Roger Berkowitz Interviews Martin Blaser
Martin Blaser is the director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM) at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS). Here, he speaks with Roger Berkowitz in advance of the Hannah Arendt Center's upcoming Symposium on Reimagining Human Health: The Microbiome, Farming, and Medicine.07-15-2019
The Courage to Be
A film from Bard student Jonathan Fine about the Hannah Arendt Center's spring semester course and dinner lecture series on courage.07-13-2019
Democratic Happiness
Roger Berkowitz looks at two essays presenting differing views on democracy.07-13-2019
What We're Reading: Cultural Criticism
Hannah Arendt Center fellow Thomas Chatterton Williams responds to a New York Times op-ed.07-13-2019
Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought
Samantha Hill notes an honor shared by Hannah Arendt Center director Roger Berkowitz and Jerome Kohn.07-13-2019
Presuppositions: Reply to Benhabib and Jay
Raymond Geuss responds to Seyla Benhabib’s rejoinder. View the debate via the links below the full text of the essay.07-13-2019
“What do we do now?”
Why Arendt Refuses to Answer
Chiara T. Ricciardone is Provost and Faculty Member of the Activist Graduate School and an NEH Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center of Bard College (2018–19). 07-13-2019