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A Constitutional Crisis?
Is the U.S. facing a constitutional crisis, or is it all political theater? This analysis breaks down the escalating tensions between the executive branch and the courts—separating fact from fiction and exploring what’s really at stake for American democracy.02-16-2025
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Video Archives - Lunchtime Talk with Ory Amitay (2012)
This week, we look back on a 2012 Lunchtime Talk with Professor Ory Amitay on the nature and history of monotheism.09-04-2014
Henri Bergson on Thinking
French philosopher Henri Bergson provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.09-03-2014
Amor Mundi 8/31/14
In this week's Amor Mundi, we recognize the anti-totalitarian tones of Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon", ask how we can repair American public discourse, reflect on ways we can seek to understand and learn from history, and much more.09-01-2014
Alienation from the Cartesian Change in the Meaning of Truth
Scholar Richard Barrett discusses the transformation of truth and its beauty as a result of Galileo's invention of the telescope.09-01-2014
The Humanities and Common Sense
Roger Berkowitz observes the unnecessarily specialized nature of humanities scholarship in today's colleges and universities and offers some remarks on how this can be remedied.08-30-2014
Video Archives - "The Destiny of Freedom" Lecture by Philippe Nonet (2012)
In this week's Video Archives, we look back to Philippe Nonet's 2012 lecture at Bard College, "The Destiny of Freedom: From Kant to Heidegger."08-28-2014
The Spirit of Revolution
Roger Berkowitz emphasizes the need to restore spaces and possibilities for the experience of freedom, including in democratic states.08-25-2014
Amor Mundi 8/24/14
In this week's Amor Mundi, we recognize the continuing relevance of humanities in the university system, identify the emptiness and fear that motivates modern-day antisemitism and Islamophobia, reflect on the world that allowed the ISIS militant group to emerge, and much more.08-25-2014