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 ...

That was dramatically clear this week when I participated in a preview and discussion of a documentary on the life of German ...

To the editor: I read with deep sadness the article by Jackie Calmes reflecting on the writings of Hannah ... on Arendt on June 27. To the editor: Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism ...

Hannah Arendt was briefly a member of the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought. After four years of regular ...

Mary McCarthy to Hannah Arendt, November, 1966 and February ... The voice that unifies The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, Men in Dark Times, and Eichmann in Jerusalem is here in all ...

Ken Krimstein, author of “The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt - A Tyranny of Truth” shares how the stories of Hannah Arendt allow their readers to better understand her thinking. When I set my sights ...

As a descendant of German immigrants, from college on I devoured histories of the rise of fascism to grasp how the cultured ...

the Jewish survivor and chronicler of Nazi totalitarianism. (The film, “Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny,” will air on PBS on June 27.) “The beginnings of her thinking run in direct parallel to ...