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Professor Berkowitz participated in a discussion with Pamela Katz, Hannah Arendt screenwriter, and Natan Sznaider, professor of government and society at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo.

"To make a film about a thinker is a challenge; to do so in a way that is accessible and gripping is a triumph," writes Roger Berkowitz.

Hannah Arendt wrote, after moving to the United States, “One feels very lonely in this country; this has to do in particular with the fact that everyone is very busy ... ” Reflecting on Arendt's experience of Americans as isolated by their own absent mindedness, Arendt Center fellow Thomas Wild makes the case for leisure and contemplation in response to a culture of distraction.

Art historian and Bard professor Susan Aberth discusses Matta's painting "Prisoner of Light," which is being seen for the first time on the international art market as part of Christie's Latin American Sale this month.

What can Greek tragedy teach us about the controversy surrounding Tamerlan Tsarnaev's burial? Professor Mendelsohn looks at the reaction in Boston in light of classic texts.

History professor Richard Aldous, author of Reagan and Thatcher, reviews Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher. Former Daily Telegraph editor Moore is "an inspired choice," writes Aldous.

Bard Graduate Center faculty member Amy Ogata's new book, Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America, looks at how U.S. worries about conformity during the Cold War changed parenting and play.

In conjunction with Zeitgeist Films, the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College presents the official U.S. opening of the film Hannah Arendt on Wednesday, May 29, at Film Forum in New York City. The screening will be followed by a discussion with director Margarethe von Trotta, screenwriter Pam Katz, and actors Barbara Sukowa (Hannah Arendt) and Janet McTeer (Mary McCarthy).

Dance/philosophy double major Samuel Pratt ’14 talks about the interdisciplinary study opportunities at Bard, and how his two chosen fields illuminate each other. "What I knew was that any academic pursuit was going to be integral to my growth and evolution as an artist," he says.