What We're Readings

Progressive Workplace Problems

Roger Berkowitz
Ryan Grim takes on the elephant in the room of progressive politics, the fact that political organizations on the left are spending more time on internal politics than they are on actually organizing to achieve their political goals. 
 

On Recognition
 

Peter Gordon reviews Axel Honneth’s new book on recognition and argues that recognition is the cornerstone of who we are as well as our claims for justice and inclusion. 

 

Russian Fascism

Roger Berkowitz
Timothy Snyder explains how Russia is a fascist state today and why that matters. 

Arendt as an Epistolary Friend

Madeleine Thien reads Hannah Arendt’s correspondence and finds that they add to her depth as a thinker.

Socrates and the Culture Wars

Roger Berkowitz
Peter Minowitz writes about how teaching Socrates’ Apology can push us past the binaries of our culture wars. 

Final Account

Jody Bolton-Fasman reviews Luke Holland’s new documentary “Final Account.”

The Humanities Must Argue for Themselves

Len Gutkin interviews Bard College President Leon Botstein about liberal arts, political repression and the humanities. Here, Botstein responds to the crisis of the humanities.
 

College Hierarchies

Mitchell L. Stevens argues that despite the “enduring faith that a college education creates opportunity for rising up social ranks,” empirical evidence suggests that at least some college degrees may actually reinforce social and economic stratification. 

VIDEO: Crisis in Education 

As part of the Richard Saltoun’s Gallery’s reading group around its Exhibit “On Hannah Arendt,” Roger Berkowitz hosted a conversation with Griselda Pollock on Arendt’s essay “The Crisis in Education”