Academics around the country are raising alarm about growing efforts to define antisemitism on terms pushed by the Trump ...

The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth By Ken Krimstein (Bloomsbury). In conversation with Dmitry Samarov Sat 11/17, 5 PM, the Dial Bookshop, 410 S. Michigan, dialbookshop.com. F ...

But Hannah Arendt is more revealing than it intends to be. Arendt does indeed try to understand, but her understanding never extends to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

Daphne Merkin on a brilliant new film presenting Hannah Arendt in the midst of the Eichmann trial and the 'banality of evil.' Daphne Merkin Published Jun. 4 2013 4:45AM EDT Zeitgeist Films/Everett ...

In 1963, writing her first seminal dispatch from the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt observed that whoever built the Israeli Palace of Justice “obviously had a theater in mind.” ...

Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think A striking new film about the controversial Jewish philosopher explores her theory of fascism -- and it fits By Andrew O'Hehir ...

A glance at the summer issue of Social Research: Hannah Arendt on totalitarianismImmediately following the publication of her acclaimed The Origins of Totalitarianism, in 1951, Hannah Arendt (1906 ...

Hannah Arendt did more than anyone else to give the idea of totalitarianism the importance we accord it today. But like her contemporary George Orwell, in her subtlest trains of thought Arendt was ...

Hannah Arendt (Barbara Sukowa) wrote about the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann for the New Yorker, coining the phrase “banality of evil.” (Zeitgeist Films) ...

Hannah Arendt was a good friend. When she was a teenage girl, she was forbidden by her mother and stepfather from visiting an acquaintance named Anne Mendelssohn, but she went anyway, walking to a ...

Harcourt Brace & Company. $34.95 Mary McCarthy, the iconoclastic novelist from Seattle, and Hannah Arendt, the emigree political philosopher from Germany, "first met at the Murray Hill Bar in ...