Since the beginning of the new era, China’s policy of fostering amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy has significantly advanced its relations with neighboring countries. China has reached a
The Supreme Court’s decision in Learning Resources v. Trump was, in Chief Justice John Roberts’ telling, a straightforward example of statutory interpretation. Roberts framed the case as an interpretation of the 1977
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During a talk in Bozeman, Montana, last week, I was asked to give examples of when Hannah Arendt was wrong. The question is disarmingly simple. She was hardly infallible. She made mistakes.
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We understand a constitution today as a kind of super-law, a law that can validate or invalidate democratically passed statutory laws. Every side invokes the constitution when it is convenient and seems
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The New York Times published the Pentagon Papers in June 1971. In November, Hannah Arendt published her commentary “Lying in Politics.” Most people have agreed, she wrote, that the “basic issue raised
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Tomorrow begins a new semester, and I’ll be teaching Constitutional Law. My course, co-taught with my colleague Peter Rosenblum, is not like the constitutional law courses I took in law school. We
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At the beginning of President Trump’s second term, I committed myself to looking past the noise. The past week challenges that discipline. In foreign policy, President Trump has openly embraced coercion —
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Roger Berkowitz’s keynote at The PolyOpportunity Retreat, Garrison Institute, Hudson Valley, NY, April 13, 2025. This was first published in Beauty Shot It’s a real pleasure to be here. Bard College is
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As 2025 slumbers toward its end, there are tentative signs of life in our constitutional republic. Few — certainly not I — would have predicted that the first stirrings of congressional resistance
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On Friday we concluded our reading of On Revolution in the Arendt Center’s Virtual Reading Group. Arendt’s last finished book, On Revolution is about freedom — the idea that animates her writing from beginning to end.
More Shortly before he died just over a year ago, Jerry Kohn called me up to discuss how we should mark the 50th anniversary of Hannah Arendt’s passing. As Arendt’s good friend, her
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