“Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny,” part of PBS’s “American Masters” series, is two films, really. One is a documentary about the political thinker, best known for her books “The Origins of ...

Discover Hannah Arendt, one of the most fearless political writers of modern times. Discover Hannah Arendt, one of the most fearless political thinkers of the 20th century, who transformed her time as ...

Hannah Arendt came up with the concept of “the banality of evil” during the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Hannah Arendt came up with the concept of “the banality of evil” during her coverage of the 1961 ...

Hannah Arendt, perhaps the most influential thinker of the 20th century, died 50 years ago. In an interview, philosophy professor Thomas Meyer reveals why her ideas remain so relevant today and how ...

A portrait of political theorist and author Hannah Arendt in 1949. (Fred Stein Archive / Archive Photos / Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

As a descendant of German immigrants, from college on I devoured histories of the rise of fascism to grasp how the cultured and educated democracy of my great grandparents could succumb so tragically.

IN 1975 A young senator named Joe Biden heard of a lecture that Hannah Arendt had recently given at Faneuil Hall in Boston, on America’s need for a reckoning after the Vietnam war, now that the “big ...

In the middle of the 20th century, philosopher-in-exile Hannah Arendt identified loneliness as a key factor in the ideologies that brought about so much of the time’s devastation. Now, in the 21st ...

Hannah Arendt was one of the most fearless writers of the 20th century, and her report of the Adolf Eichmann trial coined the phrase, “the banality of evil.” The German American scholar transformed ...