Roger Berkowitz is Founder and Aca­d­e­m­ic Direc­tor of the Han­nah Arendt Cen­ter for Pol­i­tics and Human­i­ties and Pro­fes­sor of Pol­i­tics, Phi­los­o­phy, and Human Rights at Bard Col­lege. His books include The Gift of Sci­ence: Leib­niz and the Mod­ern Legal Tra­di­tion. He also hosts the pod­cast Read­ing Han­nah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz.