McCarthy House is home to the
Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and the
Human Rights Project. The house was occupied by novelist and critic Mary McCarthy when she taught English at Bard from 1946 to 1947 and from 1986 to 1989. McCarthy and Arendt were friends for many years, and McCarthy served as Arendt’s literary executor from 1976 until her death in 1989. The conference room in the house features Arendt’s desk and three glass-paneled cupboard doors from her last apartment in New York City. Learn more at
https://hac.bard.edu