She caused controversy with books like “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” published in 1963, which grew out of her coverage of Adolf Eichmann’s trial for The New Yorker. By David Bird Fifty years after her ...

Fifty years after her death, the German-born political thinker has been enshrined as a prophet for our times. What did she actually say? Credit...Photo illustration by Ricardo Tomas Supported by By ...

Hannah Arendt at the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in 1961, ten years after she published The Origins of Totalitarianism. Everett Collection / Alamy Sales of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of ...

Hannah Arendt was one of the most fearless writers of the 20th century, and her report of the Adolf Eichmann trial coined the phrase, “the banality of evil.” The German American scholar transformed ...

Nearly every day someone or other on my social media feeds will share the same quote by Hannah Arendt. It reads: “This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring ...

B eginning in 1963, Hannah Arendt was briefly a member of the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought. After four years of regular teaching (during which she made sure to be in Hyde Park ...

Since Trump’s first term, Hannah Arendt has loomed large in op-eds and political commentary; the German-Jewish thinker’s book The Origins of Totalitarianism has made for a handy resource in comparing ...

I n the spring of 1969, Hannah Arendt solicited funding to write a book. “You may remember that more than 10 years ago I published, under the title The Human Condition, a book that dealt with the ...

As a descendant of German immigrants, from college on I devoured histories of the rise of fascism to grasp how the cultured and educated democracy of my great grandparents could succumb so tragically.

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Discover Hannah Arendt, one of the most fearless political writers of modern times. Discover Hannah Arendt, one of the most fearless political thinkers of the 20th century, who transformed her time as ...

Discover Hannah Arendt, one of the most fearless political thinkers of the 20th century, who transformed her time as a political prisoner and refugee during World War II into daring insights about ...