Arendt, a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany, understood better than most how fragile human freedom can be when people stop ...

When the images of dead Palestinian children become a punchline on a television show, where the host, guest, and the audience ...

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The Zone of Interest offers a different, terrifying view of the Holocaust by focusing on the mundane lives of Nazis next to Auschwitz. Hannah Arendt's theory on the banality of evil helps us ...

Hannah Arendt’s phrase “the banality of evil” describes the terrible ordinariness of a system that makes atrocity routine. In Gaza this October, the phrase revealed itself in flesh and blood.

To the editor: I read with deep sadness the article by Jackie Calmes reflecting on the writings of Hannah Arendt ("What Hannah Arendt saw in Hitler’s Germany, we can see in Trump’s America," April 10) ...

Hannah Arendt is unlikely to be a social-media star. Newly relevant forty years after her death, the German-born philosopher’s work is distinctly ill-suited to contemporary tools of relevance. Twitter ...

Upon hearing the setup of Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s latest film, one might be forgiven if they immediately begin hearing the echoes of Hannah Arendt’s famous “banality of evil” that ...

I find it increasingly disconcerting to scroll mindlessly through my social media feed — a post portraying a moment of violence to be immediately succeeded by an advertisement. These disparate moments ...