Contributors Peter Baehr is chair professor of social theory and Fellow of Asian Pacific studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He is the author of Founders, Classics and Canons: Modern Disputes over the Origins and Appraisal of Sociology’s Heritage and editor of the Viking Portable Hannah Arendt. Elizabeth Beaumont is assistant professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. She is the co-author of Educating for Democracy and Educating Citizens and author of the forthcoming book The Civic Constitution. Roger Berkowitz is academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. He is the author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition and coeditor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and The Intellectual Origins of the Financial Crisis. Leon Botstein has been president of Bard College since 1975. He is chairman of Central European University, a board member of the Open Society Foundation, music director of the American Symphony Orchestra (1992– present), and author of Jefferson’s Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture. David Bromwich is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence and Moral Imagination. He is a frequent contributor to Huffington Post and his essays have also appeared in the New Republic and New York Review of Books. Anand Giridharadas is a columnist for the New York Times and International Herald Tribune. He is the author of two books, India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking and The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas. Jerome Kohn is trustee, Hannah Arendt Bluecher Literary Trust, and editor of Arendt’s unpublished and uncollected writings: The Promise of Politics, Essays on Understanding 1930–1954, and Responsibility and Judgment. He is coeditor, with Ron Feldman, of The Jewish Writings.
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