A newly reissued book documents the dreams of Germans living under the Nazis, charting totalitarianism’s power over the ...

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 Jewish survivor and chronicler of Nazi ...

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 ...

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 ...

B eginning in 1963, Hannah Arendt was briefly a member of the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought. After four years of regular teaching (during which she made sure to be in Hyde ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...