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

When Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust, was brought to trial at Jerusalem’s District Court in April 1961, those in the courtroom and the millions watching on TV were in for a ...

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.

The banality of evil. Hannah Arendt's famous observation during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the ‘architect of the Holocaust.’ There's new... The Eichmann tapes and the comforting myth of the ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. In 1963, writing ...

It was Hannah Arendt, writing on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961, who coined the term "the banality of evil." Her phrase came under fire later from Jewish leaders worldwide, although they had ...

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 ...

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 ...

Banksy’s The Banality of the Banality of Evil was sold at auction on Thursday evening for $615,000. Proceeds will benefit New York-based AIDS/HIV nonprofit Housing Works. The 36 x 24.5 inch oil ...

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 ...

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 ...