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Video Archives - Lunchtime Talk with Douglas Irvin (2012)

This week, we take a look back at a 2012 Lunchtime Talk with Douglas Irvin on the origins of genocide.

Wittgenstein on Thinking

Ludwig Wittgenstein provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.

Amor Mundi 7/27/14

In this week's Amor Mundi, we explain the problem of American education using Campbell's law, marvel at the expansiveness of the U.S. prison system, and rethink the tradition and history of Ivy League schools.

Death and the Public Realm

Scholar Lance Strate discusses Arendt's remarks on the loss of the public realm and explains how this unique kind of environment relates to immortality and writing.

Beware of the Drones!

Levin has studied surveillance techniques for years and he came to think with us about how the present obsession with drones will transform our landscape and our imaginations. At a time when the obsession with drones in the media is focused on their offensive capacities, it is important to recall that drones were originally developed as a surveillance technology.  If drones are to become omnipresent in our lives, what will that mean?

A Sport of Nature

In this week's Weekend Read, Roger Berkowitz honors the memory of the late Nadine Gordimer and observes that the human world is a place of continuous and exciting change.

NEH Summer Arendt Seminar

We celebrate the conclusion of a five-week NEH Summer Seminar taught on the political philosophy of Arendt.

Video Archives - Racism Lecture Delivered by Robert Bernasconi (2011)

This week, we look back at a lecture Robert Bernasconi delivered in 2011 on racism and Enlightenment thinkers Locke and Kant.

Jean Rostand on Thinking

Jean Rostand gives us this week's Thought on Thinking.