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The Habits of Democracy

The Habits of Democracy

Roger Berkowitz   On May 31, 1887, William James gave a speech dedicating a monument to Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts…
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Bare Life and the Animal Laborans

Bare Life and the Animal Laborans

Roger Berkowitz
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Gerrymandering and State Power

Gerrymandering and State Power

Chief Justice Roberts wrote the Majority Opinion for the Supreme Court last week in Rucho v. Common Cause. Roberts’ opinion refused to…
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The Greatest Possible Torment: The Last Judgment by Frans Floris

The Greatest Possible Torment: The Last Judgment by Frans Floris

One fine Sunday morning, at the age of five or six, I discovered the Holocaust. My father, a high school history teacher, was preparing a…
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A Eulogy for Jacques Taminiaux

A Eulogy for Jacques Taminiaux

By Kazue Koishikawa
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In Memoriam: Jacques Taminiaux

In Memoriam: Jacques Taminiaux

by Jerome Kohn
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The Fundamental Chord: Remembering Carl Heidenreich

The Fundamental Chord: Remembering Carl Heidenreich

The story of painter Carl Heidenreich (1901–1965) sounds familiar, even if his name and work are not. Born in the Bavarian spa town Bad…
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Outside the Pale of the Law: Rightlessness on Reality TV in Christoph Schlingensief’s Bitte Liebt…

Outside the Pale of the Law: Rightlessness on Reality TV in Christo...

“Ausländer Raus” said the sign, black and white in block capitals. “Foreigners Out.” An unambiguous, if unrealistic, slogan like this…
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The Day After the Explosion: Art of the First Czechoslovakian Republic, 1918–1938

The Day After the Explosion: Art of the First Czechoslovakian Repub...

The First World War was, for Hannah Arendt, indescribable. Before and after the war are separated, she said “not like the end of an old…
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Judging the Private Lives of Others

Judging the Private Lives of Others

Why do people go along with behavior that makes them feel uncomfortable and violated?
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The Fragility of Persons and the Need for the Imaginary Domain

The Fragility of Persons and the Need for the Imaginary Domain

In this paper, I will argue that embodied human beings demand many forms of so-called “public support” in order to engage in the project…
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Know Your Lane

Know Your Lane

The Nation in July published a short poem “How-To” by Anders Carlson-Wee. The poem will not be remembered as a great work of art, but it is…
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What Does It Mean to Educate Citizens?

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…
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Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism

Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, which was published in 1951, reversed the then conventional wisdom about the emergence of…
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Martin Heidegger and Günther Anders on Technology: On Ray Kurzweil, Fritz Lang, and Transhumanism

Martin Heidegger and Günther Anders on Technology: On Ray Kurzweil,...

This piece was originally published in Volume 1 of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard…
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Show me the birth certificate!

Show me the birth certificate!

This piece was originally published in Volume 1 of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard…
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When Telling The Truth Demands Courage

When Telling The Truth Demands Courage

This piece was originally published in Volume 1 of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard…
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Why Are We So Matter of Fact About the Facts?

Why Are We So Matter of Fact About the Facts?

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

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…
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Is Lying A Political Virtue?

Is Lying A Political Virtue?

This piece was originally published in Volume 1 of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard…
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Arendt’s Eichmann: Murderer, Idealist, Clown

Arendt’s Eichmann: Murderer, Idealist, Clown

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

Complicity of Silence

Among the notable reads in 1971 were the Pentagon Papers and Albert Speer’s “Inside the Third Reich”, published in English the year before…
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Arendt & Marx

Arendt & Marx

“I would like to try to rescue Marx’s honor in your sight”
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The Age of Loneliness?

The Age of Loneliness?

The loneliest bird in the world died last week. Nigel, a gannet bird who lived on Mana Island off the coast of New Zealand was found dead…
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A Losing Proposition

A Losing Proposition

The anonymous allegations against Aziz Ansari have sparked controversy within the #MeToo movement. Grace’s account in Babe of a date gone…
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