New documentary airing June 27 in the US on PBS explores how the Jewish writer and activist brought lessons from WWII Germany ...

Since Trump’s first term, Hannah Arendt has loomed large in op-eds and political commentary; the German-Jewish thinker’s book The Origins of Totalitarianism has made for a handy resource in ...

Encore Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Discover Hannah Arendt, one of the most ...

Conservative commentator Benny Johnson sparked backlash across the political spectrum Tuesday for the “unnerving” clip the ...

A new PBS documentary, 'Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny,' details the main beats of the philosopher's life, but leaves out the controversy ...

What Hannah Arendt saw in Hitler’s Germany, we can see in Trump’s America Author and philosopher Hannah Arendt was a Jewish survivor and chronicler of Nazi totalitarianism. (Bettmann Archive) ...

Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you ... Ushpiz makes a number of bold choices in “Vita Activa” that might not have been possible in an Israeli documentary even 10 years ago.

This rebroadcast originally aired on July 15, 2022. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. In 1961, Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, was tried in Israel. Writer Hannah Arendt ...

And yet the parallels are undeniable. That was dramatically clear this week when I participated in a preview and discussion of a documentary on the life of German American Hannah Arendt, the ...

And yet the parallels are undeniable. That was dramatically clear this week when I participated in a preview and discussion of a documentary on the life of German American Hannah Arendt, the ...