Democracy

What Does It Mean to Educate Citizens?

A version of this piece was originally published in Volume 3 of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College.

Education — as well as its political consequences, or its place in society — is…

Democracy and Untruth

This piece was originally published in Volume 1 of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College.

A common belief is that one main reason for the superiority of representative democracy to all other political systems is…

Democracy in Name Only

by Madeleine Rosen, Bard High School Early College student and winner of our student essay contest, as part of our 2017 Fall Conference, “Crises of Democracy: Thinking in Dark Times,” addressing the question, “Has representative democracy failed?”

Has Representational Democracy Failed? A Small-Sample Study

by Jackson Blau, Bard College student and winner of our student essay contest, as part of our 2017 Fall Conference, “Crises of Democracy: Thinking in Dark Times,” addressing the question, “Has representative democracy failed?”

Crises and Democracy

We are living in a time of bad news, and our new President seems to thrive in a state of perpetual crisis. Between tossing out rolls of paper towels in Puerto Rico, inciting the ire of North Korea on Twitter, and refusing to condone Neo-Nazis marching in the streets, his golfing schedule…

The Four Prejudices Underlying Our Crises of Democracy

Hannah Arendt, Charlottesville, and The Crises of Democracy

A Discussion Between Roger Berkowitz and…

Populism and Totalitarianism

“Totalitarian politics — far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist — use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis…

What Comes After Denial? Thoughts on Donald Trump’s Movement

“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and…