Montez Press Radio: The Politics of Friendship with Uday Mehta | Bonus Episode
This week we're sharing a recording from our friends at Montez Press Radio, an experimental broadcasting and performance platform founded in 2018 with the goal of fostering greater experimentation and...
11 Juli 202553min
Staying Decent in an Indecent Society with Ian Buruma | Bonus Episode
In this bonus episode, host Roger Berkowitz speaks with Ian Buruma, a writer, journalist, educator, and award-winning thinker, as well as the Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism ...
4 Juli 202557min
Willing, Sections 1, 2, and 3 | The Life of the Mind, Introduction and Syllabus
We begin the second book in Hannah Arendt's unfinished manuscript, The Life of the Mind. This week's episode provides an overview of Part II on Willing, focusing on the concept of the will and its imp...
27 Juni 202554min
Can Deliberation Cure Democracy? with James Fishkin | Bonus Episode
In this conversation between Roger Berkowitz and James Fishkin, a Stanford University expert on deliberative polling and deliberative democracy, they discuss the effectiveness for addressing the ills ...
20 Juni 202552min
Where Are We When We Think? Sections 20-21 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 4
In this episode, Roger Berkowitz leads a discussion on the concluding sections of the book on Thinking, part of Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind. Berkowitz elaborates on Arendt's insights into the...
13 Juni 202548min
What Makes Us Think? Sections 18-19 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 3
This episode centers on Hannah Arendt's exploration of Socrates as a model for thinking, outlined in Sections 18 and 19 of Chapter 3 in The Life of the Mind. Arendt argues that Socratic thinking, char...
6 Juni 20251h
What Makes Us Think? Sections 16-17 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 3
In this episode, Roger Berkowitz continues with a close reading of Sections 16-17 of Hannah Arendt's unfinished book, The Life of the Mind. Berkowitz explores the key themes of the first part of the b...
30 Maj 202553min
What Makes Us Think? Sections 14-15 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 3
We're on to Chapter III of The Life of the Mind: What Makes Us Think? In this episode, we examine Sections 14 and 15. Roger Berkowitz discusses key themes, such as the relationship between being and a...
23 Maj 202557min
