Mark Twain famously said, “History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.” I’ve been thinking about the political historian ...

Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader is one of those tricky novels that, based on the sober moral questions it poses and its close-to-elegant style, pretends to high literary seriousness while offering its ...

All of which makes her a frightfully dangerous person, because her thought fragments tend toward evil and are amplified by her advisers. This is where things get worse, because those around her likely ...

Lyndsey Stonebridge, a professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham, is the author of “We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience.” ...

When Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust, was brought to trial at Jerusalem’s District Court in April 1961, those in the courtroom and the millions watching on TV were in for a ...

When the images of dead Palestinian children become a punchline on a television show, where the host, guest, and the audience engage in nervous laughter, then what we are witnessing is not only the ...

In June 2023, I visited Majdanek, in Poland, one of the 1000+ concentration camps Nazi Germany built to kill millions of Jews. The barracks were wooden, the watchtowers unremarkable, the gas chambers ...

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.” The space ...