Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz8 Mai

The World in Pieces with Walter Russell Mead | Live Bonus Episode

Recorded live at Bard College, this bonus episode features Roger Berkowitz in conversation with Walter Russell Mead, the Alexander Hamilton Professor of Strategy and Statecraft at the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida and Global View columnist for The Wall Street Journal. They discuss whether the post-1945 American-led liberal world order has fractured and what is replacing it as global power shifts toward the Indo-Pacific. Mead argues the old transatlantic model rested on Westernization as a global aspiration and on European centrality, both of which have eroded as non-Western powers pursue their own paths and Europe falls behind militarily, politically, and technologically. He contends U.S. influence remains structurally resilient, driven by capitalist innovation, though legitimacy and power are changing amid upheaval.

In Q&A with the audience, they discuss the UAE leaving OPEC and how U.S. fracking reshaped energy geopolitics, risks around China and Taiwan given drone warfare and blockade dynamics, Trump’s improvisational bargaining style, why predictions of American decline persist, and threats to U.S. dynamism including antisemitism, anti-science sentiment, identity fragmentation, and unsustainable immigration politics, ending with Mead’s advice to read deeply in history and literature.

This live event was held on April 29th, 2026, and co-sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement and the Alexander Hamilton Society at Bard College.

ABOUT:

Produced by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, this podcast offers close readings of Arendt's books alongside engaging interviews and thought-provoking conversations. Released weekly, each episode provides listeners with a deeper understanding of Arendt's philosophy and its relevance to contemporary issues. Available on all major podcast platforms, listeners join us on a captivating intellectual journey through the mind of Hannah Arendt.

New episodes every Friday morning! Join Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, as he discusses the works of German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975).

THE HANNAH ARENDT CENTER:

The Hannah Arendt Center provides an intellectual space for passionate, uncensored, and nonpartisan thinking that reframes and deepens the fundamental questions facing our nation and our world. Become a member and enjoy several benefits including live access to our Virtual Reading Group that takes place most Fridays, and upon which this podcast is based: https://hac.bard.edu/membership/

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THE HOST:

Roger Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He is the editor of On Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt (2024), The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition, and co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009), and Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch (2017). Berkowitz edits the HA: Yearbook and the weekly newsletter Amor Mundi. He is the winner of the 2019 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Germany.

EDITED BY:

Alex Fox Tschan is the editor & co-producer of the “Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz” podcast. He is a working musician, creative producer, & audio/visual editor at his Brooklyn-based studio, The Fox & The Sound. With 25 years of recording & performance experience, Tschan’s recent projects range from indie-pop albums to audiobooks for McNally Jackson. A full spread of his work & collaborations can be found at pastelhell.com.

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