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

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.

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 ...

Wacoans, like all Americans, are witnessing in real time what Hannah Arendt described in 1963 as “the banality of evil” following her reporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief ...

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

All of which makes her a frightfully dangerous person, because her thought fragments tend toward evil and are amplified by her advisers. This is where things get worse, because those around her likely ...

Michael (played by Michael Fuith) drives home from his office job with some groceries. Michael prepares dinner. Michael lets the young boy he’s kidnapped out of the basement to eat and watch ...

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) ...

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 ...

What makes ordinary citizens complicit in extraordinarily harmful systems? In this WhoWhatWhy podcast we talk with moral philosopher Elizabeth Minnich, who delivers a timely warning about collective ...

My opposition to the death penalty is weakening. I have opposed the death penalty after being persuaded that it contributes to the culture of death that leaves many aspects of our wondrously free and ...