In a new documentary, Hannah Arendt becomes the patron saint of anti-fascism
'Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny' details the main beats of the philosopher's life, but leaves out the controversy
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Culture Trump wants to honor Hannah Arendt in a ‘Garden of American Heroes.’ Is this a joke?
Arendt wrote incisively about the effects of totalitarian propaganda
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Culture How I became a vulgarizer — and why you should become one too
For an author of graphic narratives, vulgarizing is the point, not a criticism
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Theater Hannah Arendt is a detective solving the mystery of Eichmann in a new play
‘The Banality of Evil’ adapts Arendt’s famous dispatch from Jerusalem
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Culture In her search for truth, Hannah Arendt would have recognized the lies of Netanyahu, Putin and Trump
The philosopher examined the frailty of truth in an age of when politicians lie as naturally as they breathe
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Culture Why there’s nothing normal about Israel normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia
As Hans Morgenthau and Hannah Arendt would remind us, choosing the lesser of two evils still means choosing evil
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The documentary delivers previously unheard audio, but can’t work through its own banality
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Yiddish World He captured striking images of city life. Why haven’t we heard of him?
Fred Stein also created portraits of many luminaries, including Albert Einstein. Now his son and others are introducing Stein’s oeuvre to a new generation
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