Amor Mundi

Question and Answer

 

Mary Frances Williams was asked to leave the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies meeting this year...

Private Wisdom and Public Rhetoric

Anastasia Berg and Jon Baskin at The Point look at the public/private distinction among left academics, responding to...

Campus Politics

Liel Leibovitz offers an interesting perspective on the current wave of identity politics on college campuses in Tablet...

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.

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.

In Memoriam:
Jacques Taminiaux
 

By Jerome Kohn
I met Jacques Taminiaux in 1978 in Monteripido, where the Collegium Phenomenologicum gathered for six weeks in June and July. Monteripido is a Franciscan monastery -- a calm and beautiful place -- eight hundred years old, built in stone high above the fortress city of Perugia, Umbria, italy. It is the oldest Franciscan monastery after Assisi in which St. Francis lived and died. When the sky is clear one can see from Monteripido to Assisi. 

The New Aristocrats

By Roger Berkowitz
Matthew 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.”

Leadership and Academic Freedom

Roger Berkowitz writes about the Wall Street Journal's coverage of strong leadership and engaged debate at Bard College.

Taking White Interests Seriously?

By Roger Berkowitz
Isaac Chotiner of The New Yorker  interviews Eric Kauffman about his new book Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities. Kauffman’s book looks analyzes a double insight...