Hannah Arendt was a political thinker who understood fascism better than many. She was right there, eye-to-eye with the beast. Arendt was born near Hanover, Germany, in 1906. Her family was ...

By Sam Roberts Jerome Kohn, who devoted his career to decoding, defending and disseminating the work of Hannah Arendt, the provocative philosopher who diagnosed the roots of 20th-century ...