Hannah Arendt came up with the concept of “the banality of evil” during the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Hannah Arendt came up with the concept of “the banality of evil” during her coverage of the 1961 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Philosopher Hannah Arendt coined the phrase "the banality of evil" in the early 1960s. It refers to the idea that ordinary people can commit horrific atrocities, not out of sadism or outright ...