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Taking White Interests Seriously?
By Roger BerkowitzIsaac 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...
05-26-2019
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The Alternative to Forgiveness
Andrew T. Dilts reflects on forgiveness, punishment, and vengeance with respect to George Zimmerman's slaying of Trayvon Martin.10-20-2014
American Exceptionalism: What Are We Fighting For?
For the Weekend Read this week, we provide an edited transcript of Professor Berkowitz’s speech, which he delivered at the commencement of this year's conference "The Unmaking of Americans: Are There Still American Values Worth Fighting For?"10-18-2014
Arendt's Annotations
This week we appreciate the diversity of notational markings Arendt uses in her reading.10-17-2014
Video Archives - A Discussion on the Intellectual Origins of the Financial Crisis (2011)
In this week's Video Archives, we remember a 2011 discussion between Roger Berkowitz and David Matias on the origins of the 2008 financial crisis.10-16-2014
Horace Walpole on Thinking
Horace Walpole provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.10-15-2014
Amor Mundi 10/12/14
In this week's Amor Mundi, we recognize Patrick Modiano for his winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, wonder at how few memoirs have been written about the War in Afghanistan when compared to the Iraq War, ask whether big data is the new positivism, and much more!10-13-2014
Arendt on Humanity's Cosmic Awareness
Jeffrey Champlin explores Arendt's writings on humanity and the models of self-awareness it commonly uses to understand its earthly existence.10-13-2014