Have We Lost Sight of What Politics Is For?
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Have We Lost Sight of What Politics Is For?
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Can we defend democracy without sacrificing the friendships and human connections that make it worth saving? The paradox of political obsession.
In this recent WhoWhatWhy podcast, I talk with political philosopher Roger Berkowitz — founder of Bard College’s Hannah Arendt Center and author of A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World. He explores a provocative idea: Perhaps democracy’s survival depends as much on our capacity for friendship as on our political convictions.
What if one of the greatest threats to democracy isn’t political extremism itself, but the disappearance of the human relationships that make democracy possible? What if, in our determination to defend the country, we’re slowly destroying our ability to share it?
We live in an age when political convictions increasingly determine whom we trust, whom we love, even whom we’re willing to speak to.
Outrage has become a measure of moral seriousness, and every disagreement seems to demand a verdict on someone’s character. But is this constant state of political mobilization making us better citizens, or simply making us less capable of living together?
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