Hannah Arendt attended the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Nazi bureaucrat of the Holocaust and saw in him the "banality of evil.” ...

New documentary airing June 27 in the US on PBS explores how the Jewish writer and activist brought lessons from WWII Germany ...

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Novelist Albert Camus had it right: happiness lies in living in harmony with our surroundings. But what can this ...

Those who captured Eichmann, she said, “have taken a first step in redressing a grave, historic injustice–Eichmann’s evasion of justice. Is this a problem for the Security Council to deal with?

Hannah Arendt was a German-born political theorist and philosopher best known for her influential works on totalitarianism, authority and the nature of evil. Forced to flee Nazi Germany as a ...

Anti-Nazi feeling and the decline of Christianity have changed the ethics of society, Alec Ryrie tells Ed Thornton ...

Acting sustainably is no longer a buzzword; it is now a necessity,” were the words of the King’s representative in ...

This is where she introduces the much-criticized term “banality of evil”. In watching Eichmann at his trial, she was struck by his ordinariness. He didn’t appear to be satanic.

Encore Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Discover Hannah Arendt, one of the most ...

While India today is vastly different from the India of 1975, the need for vigilance against authoritarianism remains the ...