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What happens when democracy teeters on the edge — and how can we resist the slide into tyranny? In a timely new episode of American Masters premiering Friday, June 27, at 9 p.m., on PBS, executive ...

She caused controversy with books like “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” published in 1963, which grew out of her coverage of Adolf Eichmann’s trial for The New Yorker.

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) ...

Nearly every day someone or other on my social media feeds will share the same quote by Hannah Arendt. It reads: “This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author and philosopher Hannah Arendt was a Jewish survivor and chronicler of Nazi totalitarianism. (Bettmann Archive) As a ...

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Hannah Arendt came up with ideas for “The Origins of Totalitarianism” while observing Hitler. Adolf Hitler projected his own narrative into his campaign speeches, giving his followers a coherent story ...

What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt, edited and translated (with Genese Grill) by Samantha Rose Hill (Liveright, 208 pp., $26.99) Buried deep in Hannah Arendt’s archives in the Library ...

Philosopher Hannah Arendt later described this logic in her famous book The Banality of Evil, showing how mass crimes are often not carried out by fanatics, but by ordinary people who believe they are ...

Political philosopher Hannah Arendt, fled her native Germany during the Nazis’ persecution of Jews and found refuge in the United States. Writing about authoritarianism, Arendt coined the phrase “the ...