@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
Founder and academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College.
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On #teaching: “While critical thinking is an important skill, what teachers teach … is enthusiasm and a love of #learning. The great teachers are the lovers of learning. What they teach, above all, is the experience of discovery.” – @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social medium.com/amor-mundi/o...
On Teaching
by Roger Berkowitz
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November 3, 2025 at 8:12 AM
On #teaching: “While critical thinking is an important skill, what teachers teach … is enthusiasm and a love of #learning. The great teachers are the lovers of learning. What they teach, above all, is the experience of discovery.” – @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social medium.com/amor-mundi/o...
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New episode of "Reading Hannah Arendt with @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social" out now! Find it wherever you get your podcasts! #HannahArendt
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Foundation I: Constitution Liberatis | On Revolution, Chapter 4 #hannaharendt #podcast
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November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
New episode of "Reading Hannah Arendt with @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social" out now! Find it wherever you get your podcasts! #HannahArendt
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Why do we need JOY and how did we come to curate this year’s #ArendtCon2025 speakers? Hear @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social go in-depth on @wamcradio.bsky.social with Joe Donahue. #HannahArendt #JoyInDarkTimes
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The Hannah Arendt Center presents "JOY: Loving the World in Dark Times" on 10/16-10/17
The Hannah Arendt Center's 17th annual fall conference, “JOY: Loving the World in Dark Times,” will offer a crucial lens for finding meaning and connection amidst today's fractured world. Bringing tog...
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October 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Why do we need JOY and how did we come to curate this year’s #ArendtCon2025 speakers? Hear @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social go in-depth on @wamcradio.bsky.social with Joe Donahue. #HannahArendt #JoyInDarkTimes
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Book 135: The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt
h/t to @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social for choosing this for book club / prompting me to revisit this brilliant text. If only we hadn’t lost her before she penned JUDGING…
#booksky #bookchallenge #philsky #academicsky
h/t to @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social for choosing this for book club / prompting me to revisit this brilliant text. If only we hadn’t lost her before she penned JUDGING…
#booksky #bookchallenge #philsky #academicsky
September 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Book 135: The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt
h/t to @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social for choosing this for book club / prompting me to revisit this brilliant text. If only we hadn’t lost her before she penned JUDGING…
#booksky #bookchallenge #philsky #academicsky
h/t to @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social for choosing this for book club / prompting me to revisit this brilliant text. If only we hadn’t lost her before she penned JUDGING…
#booksky #bookchallenge #philsky #academicsky
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Join us tonight at 6p for a film screening of #HannahArendt Facing Tyranny at @bardcollege.bsky.social! With snacks and Q&A with the film makers, @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social, and Leon Botstein.
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Hannah Arendt Facing Tyranny Screening and Discussion
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny takes a closer look at one of the most fearless political writers of modern times. This is a rare opportunity to watch the film, which is being introduced by award-winnin...
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September 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Join us tonight at 6p for a film screening of #HannahArendt Facing Tyranny at @bardcollege.bsky.social! With snacks and Q&A with the film makers, @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social, and Leon Botstein.
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View our new conference commercial and register to join us in October at hac.bard.edu at @bardcollege.bsky.social
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@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social #arendtcon2025 #joyindarktimes #hannaharendt
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JOY Conference Trailer #shorts
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September 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
View our new conference commercial and register to join us in October at hac.bard.edu at @bardcollege.bsky.social
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@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social #arendtcon2025 #joyindarktimes #hannaharendt
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Thanks to @wamcradio.bsky.social for having @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social back on The Roundtable yesterday!
Listen here:
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9/17/25 Panel
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Professo...
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September 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Thanks to @wamcradio.bsky.social for having @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social back on The Roundtable yesterday!
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New episode of Reading #HannahArendt with @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social out now on hac.podbean.com!
We just finished our reading of "The Life of the Mind" and today we start "On Revolution." Learn more at hac.bard.edu.
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We just finished our reading of "The Life of the Mind" and today we start "On Revolution." Learn more at hac.bard.edu.
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Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind, Book II Willing, Conclusions, Sections 13, 14, and 15 #shorts
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September 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
New episode of Reading #HannahArendt with @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social out now on hac.podbean.com!
We just finished our reading of "The Life of the Mind" and today we start "On Revolution." Learn more at hac.bard.edu.
youtube.com/shorts/YFV3L...
We just finished our reading of "The Life of the Mind" and today we start "On Revolution." Learn more at hac.bard.edu.
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Our #VirtualReadingGroup starts a new book this week! Join now, or listen later on the #podcast #ReadingHannahArendt with @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
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The Hannah Arendt Center Virtual Reading Group begins a new book this week, On Revolution #shorts
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September 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Our #VirtualReadingGroup starts a new book this week! Join now, or listen later on the #podcast #ReadingHannahArendt with @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
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In this bonus episode of our podcast, host @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social reads from and discusses his two recent essays. (Find them on Medium and in the podcast show notes!)
Out now at hac.podbean.com.
#philosophy #politics #illiberalism #Stalinism #Maoism #Trumpism #ReadingHannahArendt #podcast
Out now at hac.podbean.com.
#philosophy #politics #illiberalism #Stalinism #Maoism #Trumpism #ReadingHannahArendt #podcast
September 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
In this bonus episode of our podcast, host @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social reads from and discusses his two recent essays. (Find them on Medium and in the podcast show notes!)
Out now at hac.podbean.com.
#philosophy #politics #illiberalism #Stalinism #Maoism #Trumpism #ReadingHannahArendt #podcast
Out now at hac.podbean.com.
#philosophy #politics #illiberalism #Stalinism #Maoism #Trumpism #ReadingHannahArendt #podcast
On the Maoist and Stalinist roots and f Trumpism
With thanks to Public Seminar, the online publication of the @nssrnews.bsky.social for the reprint of @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social essay! Find it here: publicseminar.org/2025/08/the-...
The Revolution Against Legitimacy - Public Seminar
To the new revolutionary class of the second Trump era, legitimacy itself is an unjust claim of power, Roger Berkowitz writes.
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August 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
On the Maoist and Stalinist roots and f Trumpism
“… such acts, multiplied across a society, can quietly erode the foundations of power. Arendt admired such acts not for their spectacle but for their stubbornness.”
Thanks for sharing @jasongoroncy.bsky.social and thanks for writing @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
Thanks for sharing @jasongoroncy.bsky.social and thanks for writing @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social on our responsibility when living under under tyranny, riffing on Arendt. medium.com/amor-mundi/o...
August 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Commentary: A chilling silence as rights, and people, vanish www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...
Commentary: A chilling silence as rights, and people, vanish
As ICE spreads out across America, cracks are forming in the rule of law.
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August 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Commentary: A chilling silence as rights, and people, vanish www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...
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New episode of Reading #HannahArendt with @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social out now on your favorite #podcast platform! This week’s philosophical debate: memory!
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Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind, Book II Willing, Chapter 3, Sections 11 and 12 #short
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August 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
New episode of Reading #HannahArendt with @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social out now on your favorite #podcast platform! This week’s philosophical debate: memory!
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Thanks @jasongoroncy.bsky.social
'Truth, however fragile & contested it may be, is the ground we walk on and the sky above us. ... #Truth is not #political, but it is the non-political condition for the possibility of #politics, the glue that binds the world in which we live'. @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
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When Politics Becomes “Maximum Warfare, Everywhere, All the Time”
by Roger Berkowitz
medium.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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thrilled to be on the @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social podcast with Donovan Hohn. Great conversation about Civil Disobedience.
This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn sits down for a conversation with @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social.
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Episode 9: Roger Berkowitz
The latest episode of The World in Time.
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August 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
thrilled to be on the @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social podcast with Donovan Hohn. Great conversation about Civil Disobedience.
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This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn sits down for a conversation with @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social.
www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
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Episode 9: Roger Berkowitz
The latest episode of The World in Time.
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August 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn sits down for a conversation with @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social.
www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
Gerrymandering, Jünger, total war, and the threat to the republic. medium.com/amor-mundi/w...
When Politics Becomes “Maximum Warfare, Everywhere, All the Time”
by Roger Berkowitz
medium.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Gerrymandering, Jünger, total war, and the threat to the republic. medium.com/amor-mundi/w...
ICE is expanding into something colder, harder, more dangerous. Disappearances. Masks. Silence. Hannah Arendt warned what comes next.
Read my latest: Dangerous Ice, featuring Sophie Cabot Black’s haunting poem. @sophiecabotblac medium.com/p/ed9c707ad212
Read my latest: Dangerous Ice, featuring Sophie Cabot Black’s haunting poem. @sophiecabotblac medium.com/p/ed9c707ad212
Dangerous Ice
by Roger Berkowitz
medium.com
July 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
ICE is expanding into something colder, harder, more dangerous. Disappearances. Masks. Silence. Hannah Arendt warned what comes next.
Read my latest: Dangerous Ice, featuring Sophie Cabot Black’s haunting poem. @sophiecabotblac medium.com/p/ed9c707ad212
Read my latest: Dangerous Ice, featuring Sophie Cabot Black’s haunting poem. @sophiecabotblac medium.com/p/ed9c707ad212
In amor mundi we kid poetry and horror. Arendt and Ice.
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July 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
In amor mundi we kid poetry and horror. Arendt and Ice.
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How to be Decent in an Indecent society.
You need to listen to Ian Buruma on this essential question.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social @marcishore.bsky.social
You need to listen to Ian Buruma on this essential question.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social @marcishore.bsky.social
New podcast episode out now with two @bardcollege.bsky.social professors: @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social and Ian Buruma. It's a sneak peek at Buruma's upcoming article "Staying Decent in an Indecent Society." Listen wherever you get your podcasts and at hac.podbean.com.
#ReadingHannahArendt
#ReadingHannahArendt
July 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
How to be Decent in an Indecent society.
You need to listen to Ian Buruma on this essential question.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social @marcishore.bsky.social
You need to listen to Ian Buruma on this essential question.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social @marcishore.bsky.social
Samantha Fazekas' "Hannah Arendt's Unwritten Chapter on Judging" is fantastic. The inaugural volume in the new Series "Thinking With Arendt". Absolutely essential reading.
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@degruyterbrill.bsky.social @arendtedition.bsky.social @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social @samantharhill.bsky.social
"Es kommt darauf an, ganz gegenwärtig zu sein" - Inspiring talks on the topicality of Arendt's political thought at diffrakt, Berlin. Samantha Fazekas presents her new book "Hannah Arendt’s Unwritten Chapter on Judging" @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social @meinefeld.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Samantha Fazekas' "Hannah Arendt's Unwritten Chapter on Judging" is fantastic. The inaugural volume in the new Series "Thinking With Arendt". Absolutely essential reading.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social @arendtedition.bsky.social @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social @samantharhill.bsky.social
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social @arendtedition.bsky.social @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social @samantharhill.bsky.social
civil disobedience are not peripheral to democratic life, but lie at the very heart of American democracy.
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@hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social @arendtedition.bsky.social @bardcollege.bsky.social
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Hannah Arendt taught us that civil disobedience is essential to American democracy | American Masters | PBS
Scholar Roger Berkowitz shares how Hannah Arendt saw civil disobedience as a collective and political act that renews democracy by holding power
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July 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
civil disobedience are not peripheral to democratic life, but lie at the very heart of American democracy.
www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
@hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social @arendtedition.bsky.social @bardcollege.bsky.social
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@hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social @arendtedition.bsky.social @bardcollege.bsky.social
How to live as a decent person in an indecent society. Ian Buruma asks the right questions.
New podcast episode out now with two @bardcollege.bsky.social professors: @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social and Ian Buruma. It's a sneak peek at Buruma's upcoming article "Staying Decent in an Indecent Society." Listen wherever you get your podcasts and at hac.podbean.com.
#ReadingHannahArendt
#ReadingHannahArendt
July 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
How to live as a decent person in an indecent society. Ian Buruma asks the right questions.