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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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Teaching Hannah Arendt Underground
By Samantha HillFor the past two days I’ve been teaching Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism for the tuition free summer school program at The University of the Underground and The Hannah Arendt Center, at The School for Poetic Computation in NYC. ..
08-04-2019
The Four Prejudices Underlying Our Crises of Democracy
This essay by Roger Berkowitz was originally published in HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center.08-02-2019
Why Privacy Matters: Panel Eleven
A discussion from our 2015 Annual Conference: Why Privacy Matters: What Do We Lose When We Lose Our Privacy?08-02-2019
Time for Arendt
“In the last analysis, the human world is always the product of man’s amor mundi, a human artifice whose potential immortality is always subject to the mortality of those who build it and the natality of those who come to live in it.”08-02-2019
Agnes Heller: 12 May, 1929 – 19 July, 2019
Roger Berkowitz writes in memoriam of the holocaust survivor and Arendt scholar.07-21-2019
A Letter from Roger Berkowitz
When you join the Hannah Arendt Center, you become part of a global community of thinkers, philosophers, and activists dedicated to understanding and loving the world as it is. Please read this special letter from our Academic Director, Roger Berkowitz to learn why your membership is so important, now more than ever.07-19-2019
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