Discover Hannah Arendt, one of the most fearless political thinkers of the 20th century, who transformed her time as a political prisoner and refugee during World War II into daring insights about ...

In 1961, Hannah Arendt travels to Jerusalem to cover the trial of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann for «The New Yorker». Instead of a monster, she sees a nobody in the courtroom. She processes this ...

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 ...