Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader is one of those tricky novels that, based on the sober moral questions it poses and its close-to-elegant style, pretends to high literary seriousness while offering its ...

Lyndsey Stonebridge, a professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham, is the author of “We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience.” ...

When Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust, was brought to trial at Jerusalem’s District Court in April 1961, those in the courtroom and the millions watching on TV were in for a ...

Philosopher Hannah Arendt coined the phrase "the banality of evil" in the early 1960s. It refers to the idea that ordinary people can commit horrific atrocities, not out of sadism or outright ...