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The Bitter Pill of Post-Truth: Learning to Live in Plurality

December 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM

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So glad you listen and enjoy!

Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social · Dec 10

Thank you so much for being one of our top Reading #HannahArendt with @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social podcast listeners! We appreciate you!

Chris Frashure @frashure.org · Dec 10

My top pods per @antennapod.org. Featuring @constitutionctr.bsky.social, @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social, @andyjabbour.bsky.social, @dpounder.bsky.social

December 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM

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In his most recent essay, @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social explores how confirmation bias presses us to choose between truth and power.

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#HannahArendt #truth #power #AmorMundi

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Foundation II: Novus Ordo Saeclorum | On Revolution, Chapter 5 #HannahArendt #podcast #shorts

December 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM

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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the death of one of the 20th century's most influential political thinkers, Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 - December 4, 1975).

What #HannahArendt book has most impacted your thinking?

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December 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM

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New episode of Reading #HannahArendt with @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social is out now! Find it on hac.podbean.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Just a couple more sessions with On Revolution before we post lots of great conversations before our next read!

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November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM

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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

Foundation I: Constitution Liberatis | On Revolution, Chapter 4 #hannaharendt #podcast

November 3, 2025 at 8:12 AM

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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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The Hannah Arendt Center presents "JOY: Loving the World in Dark Times" on 10/16-10/17

November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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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'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

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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

September 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM

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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

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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

JOY Conference Trailer #shorts

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September 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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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

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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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Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind, Book II Willing, Conclusions, Sections 13, 14, and 15 #shorts

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The Hannah Arendt Center Virtual Reading Group begins a new book this week, On Revolution #shorts

September 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM

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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 Revolution Against Legitimacy - Public Seminar

September 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM

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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

September 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM

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On the Maoist and Stalinist roots and f Trumpism

Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social · Aug 26

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-...

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

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Thanks @jasongoroncy.bsky.social and @sallydouglas.bsky.social

Sally Douglas @sallydouglas.bsky.social · Aug 12

“… 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

Jason Goroncy @jasongoroncy.bsky.social · Aug 12

@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

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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

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On Tyranny, Its Causes, and Our Personal Responsibility

Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind, Book II Willing, Chapter 3, Sections 11 and 12 #short

August 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM

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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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