Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: The ‘banality of evil’ described by political theorist Hannah Arendt is taking hold in the United States

To the editor: I read with deep sadness the article by Jackie Calmes reflecting on the writings of Hannah Arendt (“What Hannah Arendt saw in Hitler’s Germany, we can see in Trump’s America,” April 10) ...
The Atlantic

The Banality of Butter: What Hannah Arendt Can Tell Us About Paula Deen

Hannah Arendt was perhaps the first to write coherently about the trouble communities have in seeing the world as being something other than what they have been conditioned to see — without any kind ...
The Cornell Daily Sun

Apathy as Policy and the ‘Banality of Evil’

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 ...
The Brown Daily Herald

'The Seed of the Sacred Fig': the non-banality of evil

Upon hearing the setup of Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s latest film, one might be forgiven if they immediately begin hearing the echoes of Hannah Arendt’s famous “banality of evil” that ...
The New York Times

Hannah Arendt

Fifty years after her death, the German-born political thinker has been enshrined as a prophet for our times. What did she actually say? By Jennifer Szalai It was once considered a virtue. Why do some ...

Never out of date: How Hannah Arendt helps us understand our world

Fifty years after her death in New York, Hannah Arendt has become the most popular philosopher of our time. For good reason: Her views are just as timely as ever.