Friendship Vs Polarization

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 8

Roger Berkowitz, founder and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College and the author of A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World (Yale University Press, 2026) draws on the work of Hannah Arendt to argue that the ability to be friends and disagree is the key to healing divisions. 

=> EVENT: On October 19th at 7pm Roger Berkowitz will be in conversation with Roosevelt Montás for a discussion about his new book, A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World.

Photo: Portrait of German-born American political theorist and author Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975). (Photo by Fred Stein Archive/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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