Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' concept applies to Trump's Gaza plan, highlighting the dangers of bureaucratic compliance.

In 1997, for example, Vivian Gornick wrote that love was no longer the primary narrative conflict of contemporary literature.

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Safra Center for Ethics. She was a co-author of the center’s April 2020 Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience and is a senior advisor to the Hannah Arendt Humanities Network. Stanger was the 2020 Cary and ...

Today’s tech oligarchs want the appearance of public acclaim for their deeply elitist vision of society—while maintaining a docile and cooperative public.

is editor at large of the New York Jewish Week and managing editor for Ideas for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

The philosopher and historian Hannah Arendt noted that some of the Nazi party’s most effective leaders were not fanatics or sociopaths, but rather bureaucrats who ruthlessly engaged in murder and ...

By Jennifer HarlanAliza Aufrichtig and Rebecca Lieberman The author of “If We Were Villains” recommends novels that will make you shiver with delight one moment and recoil in horror the next.