Adolf Eichmann is alive and well and living in America
Those who excuse the January 6 Capitol riot and oppose COVID vaccines are exhibiting the ‘thoughtlessness’ Hannah Arendt warned us about.
What the Surfside tragedy teaches us about ‘critical maintenance’
Owners push back against expensive maintenance not because they are bad actors, but because they are, like the rest of us, all too human.
Behind a viral slap, a disturbing antisemitic history
Emmanuel Macron didn’t make much of the slap he endured in France, but history requires us to take it more seriously.
Why the new Israeli coalition seems like something out of an ‘Avengers’ movie
The politics of the Avengers, Captain America and Iron Man, roughly map onto the Israeli coalition. But the similarities don’t stop there.
Joe Manchin’s filibuster-sized Talmudic trolley problem — and ours
You are standing near a track-changing lever when you see a runaway filibuster barreling towards five rail workers. What do you do?
For Albert Camus, events in Gaza would have seemed all too familiar
For Camus, suffering in French Algeria was an equal-opportunity affliction, spilling over ethnic, religious and ideological lines.
How Simone Weil taught us to confront a world poisoned with lies
Though Simone Weil died in 1943 at the age of 33, her writings about truth and spiritual health remain as relevant today as they ever were.
Why Disraeli is the mensch England could use right now
What is extraordinary is that this practicing Anglican never disowned his Jewishness. In fact, he played up his ancestry.
It may not seem like it, but justice was done in the Sarah Halimi case
In an age where illiberal governments are ascendant, the French courts adhered to the rule of law and constitutional principles.
In ‘The Third Man,’ a disturbing and cautionary tale for American politicians
Republican governors’ insistence on ignoring science recalls the callous indifference of Harry Lime played by Orson Welles in the cinema classic.