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Walter Benjamin's Illuminations: the remarkably prescient work of an intellectual truth-seeker

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

The Conversation

On my radar: Posy Simmonds’s cultural highlights

The cartoonist on inspiring female thinkers, watching giraffes on TV, and the best shop for pencils

The Guardian - UK

Gessen Gets German Prize Amid Controversial Gaza-Nazi Comparison

Masha Gessen receives German literary prize amidst controversy over comparing Gaza to Nazi ghettos. The event sparked intense debate in Germany.

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German foundation cancels award for journalist who compared Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghetto

Foundation says essay’s implication that Israel aimed to ‘liquidate Gaza like a Nazi ghetto’ is unacceptable

The Independent UK

Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos

US-Russian journalist Masha Gessen won Germany’s Hannah Arendt prize for political thought

The Guardian - UK

Was going to space a good idea?

In 1963, six years after the first satellite was launched, editors from the Encyclopaedia Britannica posed a question to five eminent thinkers of the day: “Has man’s conquest of space increased or diminished his stature?” The respondents were philosopher Hannah Arendt, writer Aldous Huxley, theologian Paul Tillich, nuclear scientist Harrison…

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Nazi doctors weren't just ‘a few bad apples’, shows report – and simplistic stories won't help guard against future medical abuses

Extraordinary evil involves a total moral collapse across society caused by failure of individual humanity and ethical judgment. This was the conclusion of the philosopher Hannah Arendt after witnessing the trial of Adolf Eichmann – the chief architect of the Holocaust – in Jerusalem.

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Prophet Song by Paul Lynch: Booker prize-winning novel is a distinctly Irish tale of civic and ideological collapse

The philosopher Hannah Arendt’s much-quoted description of the “banality of evil” could be applied to the disquieting story told in Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. The Booker prize-winning novel is a perfect study of the banality of totalitarianism.

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Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand all felt 'different' in the world – and changed the way we think

The “actual impulse of astonishment” that sparks all philosophising is “honest bafflement that other people live as they do,” writes Wolfram Eilenberger in his new book, The Visionaries.

The Conversation

Is it time to reconsider the idea of 'the banality of evil'?

After attending the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, the philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt claimed what was terrifying about this man was not his moral monstrosity. It was his sheer normality. She subtitled her 1963 book on the subject, Eichmann in Jerusalem, “a report on the…

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Feeding the insatiable MAGA movement

Many of Trump’s diehard followers are White Christians who have found a role model and outlet for their desires

Salon

Jon Nixon obituary

Other lives: Academic interested in intellectual history and prolific author of books including on Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg

The Guardian - UK

Universalism or tribalism? Michael Gawenda's memoir considers what it means to be a Jew in contemporary Australia

At one point in this book, journalist Michael Gawenda claims “only progressive, secular reviewers are chosen to review books about Jews.” So I need begin my review of My Life as a Jew by acknowledging that I fit this description.

The Conversation

"Meet the Press" deserves the backlash

"Meet the Press" and NBC News are collaborators in normalizing Donald Trump's fascist demagoguery

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Did liberalism sabotage itself?

Historian Samuel Moyn's account of the downfall of liberalism raises intriguing questions — but can't answer them

Salon

A good week for the rule of law

Rudy's smackdown was more than symbolic: America's courts are holding the line as the place where truth matters

The Guardian - UK

The Visionaries review – seers who were shaped by the shadow of war

Wolfram Eilenberger’s group biography of Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil illuminates how the horrors of the 1930s informed the philosophers’ worldviews – with the ‘saintly’ Weil the star of the show

The Guardian - UK

The Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger review – four women who changed the world

The complicated lives and questing minds of Ayn Rand, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil

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Giuliani's downfall — and why it matters

Trump's consigliere faces likely disbarment in D.C. That's not just a technical matter — it's a stand for truth

Reason

When Couple Is Divorcing, What Should Happen to Their Fertilized Pre-Embryos?

From Jocelyn P. v. Joshua P., decided yesterday by the Maryland Appellate Court (nonprecedential opinion by Judge Andrea Leahy, joined by Justices Christopher Kehoe & Terrence Zic): "Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that is humanly possible." -Hannah…

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Transatlantic cast: who's who in the World War II period drama

Transatlantic cast — a who's who guide to the World War II drama.

Salon

Dominion's Fox suit: Just the beginning

Fox News told vicious lies that damaged our democracy, all in the pursuit of profit. That has to change

The Conversation

The book that changed me: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem and the problem of terrifying moral complacency

Hannah Arendt published Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil in 1963. Over the next two decades alone, it would be republished some 30 times, first in the United States and then Britain, as debate swirled around both its arguments and its author.

The Hindu

Mahatma Gandhi, the peacemaker

Gandhi considered the problem of peace as an ethical, rather than political, issue

The Conversation

Who is 'the public?' The answer shapes how we address homelessness

Housing affordability and homelessness are hot topics in municipal politics these days. But ironically, unhoused citizens are left out of the civic debate that most impacts their lives.

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