Pluralism and Liberalism: Ben Klutsey talks to Roger Berkowitz

Discourse Magazine Podcast

In this seventh installment of our series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, sits down with Roger Berkowitz to discuss the effects that democratic conversations, elite technocratic prejudices, and mass loneliness have on pluralism and liberalism. Dr. Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College. He specializes in law, political theory, and continental philosophy. His books include The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition and Thinking In Dark Times: Hannah Arendt On Ethics And Politics. Berkowitz also edits HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center and the weekly newsletter Amor Mundi.

The audio, as well as the transcript of this conversation between Klutsey and Berkowitz, has been slightly edited for clarity.

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