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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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The Poverty of Ideas
Roger Berkowitz discusses an essay written by Raymond Guess on the failure of contemporary thinking at the hands of denial, debt, and John Rawls' philosophy.08-16-2014
Video Archives - Public Discussion with Roger Berkowitz and Bill Jones (2010)
This week in our Video Archives, we take a look back on a public discussion between Bill T. Jones and Roger Berkowitz on the Arendtian notion of thinking.08-14-2014
Isaiah Berlin and the Collision of Values
Scholar Ian Storey discusses Isaiah Berlin and the notion that politics demands we surpass acceptance to reach a level of moral and ethical understanding of one another.08-11-2014
Amor Mundi 8/10/14
In this week's Amor Mundi, we appreciate the magic of C.S. Lewis' Narnia, learn about an app that attempts to quantify the soul, obtain an inside look into Gazan everyday life during times of war, and much more.08-11-2014
The Two American Constitutional Freedoms
Roger Berkowitz revisits Robert Pranger's essay "The Decline of the American National Government" and in so doing identifies the importance of upholding a proper role for government, both local and national.08-09-2014
Video Archives - Roger Berkowitz L&T Lecture (2010)
In this week's Video Archives, we take a look back at a lecture Roger Berkowitz delivered back in 2010 on the importance of humanity.08-07-2014
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, on Thinking
French writer and moralist Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, provides this week's Thought on Thinking.08-06-2014
The Demand for “Beginning” in the Face of the Unprecedented
HAC Associate Fellow Jeff Jurgens explains Arendt's view that judges need to be equipped to make decisions beyond the scope of legal precedent, such as in cases of genocide. He then explains how this view informed her support for the creation of an international criminal court.08-04-2014