With the release of the new biopic “Hannah Arendt,” about the political philosopher’s coverage of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, you can expect to be hearing a lot of Arendt’s concept “the banality ...

It’s that season again. Graduation exercises are now upon us, that scholastic rite of Spring happening all over the country. Once again, we’ll hear another torrent of cliched advice being rolled out ...

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 ...

On Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer, by Bettina Stangneth. The concept of “the banality of evil” devised by Hannah Arendt half a century ago and indelibly linked to ...

In her seminal book Eichmann in Jerusalem. A report on the Banality of Evil, Hannah Arendt described the court case of Adolf Eichmann, one of the main organisers of the Jewish Holocaust that took ...