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.

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

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

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Hannah Arendt who examined totalitarianism and politics and, when covering the Eichmann trial, explored 'the banality of evil'.

Through years of research, AI-assisted photographic analysis, and archival images supplied by a distant relative, German ...

Hannah Arendt, a German political philosopher/historian who was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo in 1933, famously coined the term "the banality of evil." Arendt is also remembered for the phrase ...

The genocide in Gaza and consequent growth of the Palestinian solidarity movement forced creatives to notice the elephant in the room ...

Dear Prof. Amupitan, This is not a congratulatory note. It is a summons to conscience. Last week, my concern was about who ...

Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, struts at the port of Ashdod before the international activists ...

Complacent EU officials in Brussels may shrug off accusations of double standards as part of a new geopolitical reality. But others know that no amount of clever spin or PR can hide the difference in ...