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 ...

Throughout human history people have feared and been discomfited by “the other.” As a life-long optimist, I don’t believe we’re doomed but I believe we’re in extremely serious trouble and must unite ...

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 ...

After attending the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, the philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt claimed what was terrifying about this man was not his moral monstrosity. It ...

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 ...

The philosopher Hannah Arendt talks about the banality of evil — a morbid social syndrome where a society is so habituated to evil that common people, decent human beings in constitution and general ...