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In Memoriam: Dora Amelan
We at the Hannah Arendt Center mourn the death of Dora Amelan (1920-2020). Dora was a remarkable French Jewish woman who worked with the Children’s Aid Society in the French internment camps during WWII, saving many children and adults. Dora was the mother of Bjorn Amelan and mother-in-law to his partner Bill T. Jones, who has long collaborated with the Hannah Arendt Center and Bard College. Dora passed away this week in Paris, from complications associated with Covid-19.04-03-2020
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To Judge Timelessness
Nikita Nelin, associate fellow at the Center, writes this week's Quote.06-07-2019
Why Arendt Matters: Celso Lafer
Roger Berkowitz talks with Celso Lafer for our video series.06-07-2019
Question and Answer
Mary Frances Williams was asked to leave the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies meeting this year... 06-02-2019
Private Wisdom and Public Rhetoric
Anastasia Berg and Jon Baskin at The Point look at the public/private distinction among left academics, responding to...06-02-2019
Campus Politics
Liel Leibovitz offers an interesting perspective on the current wave of identity politics on college campuses in Tablet...06-02-2019
Immortality and Politics
Roger Berkowitz writes about immortality, Arendt, and Amber Scorah's reflections on grief.06-02-2019
The Greatest Possible Torment: The Last Judgment by Frans Floris
Max Feldman writes about the holocaust, Arendt, and Frans Floris's The Last Judgment in this month's column.05-31-2019
Why Arendt Matters: Bill T Jones
Roger Berkowitz talks with choregrapher and director Bill T. Jones about the importance of Hannah Arendt's ideas and writings. 05-31-2019
The New Aristocrats
By Roger BerkowitzMatthew Stewart in The Atlantic rehearses the truth that the top one percent of Americans are villains and the bottom 99 percent are the good guys. The reality, he argues, is more complicated. Stewart divides us instead into three classes. There is the top 0.1 percent who are masters of the universe and the bottom 90 percent who are losing out in a race to the bottom. In between is the top 9.9 percent who Stewart calls “the new aristocrats.” While it is easy to claim to be part of the 99%, many who do so are part of this new aristocracy who Stewart argues are “accomplices in a process that is slowly strangling the economy, destabilizing American politics, and eroding democracy.”
05-26-2019