Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion’s sixth annual Circle Lecture on September 26, 2024. Over the last six decades, a certain phrase has ...

I find it increasingly disconcerting to scroll mindlessly through my social media feed — a post portraying a moment of violence to be immediately succeeded by an advertisement. These disparate moments ...

Hannah Arendt came up with the concept of “the banality of evil” during the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Hannah Arendt came up with the concept of “the banality of evil” during her coverage of the 1961 ...

Throughout human history people have feared and been discomfited by “the other.” As a life-long optimist, I don’t believe we’re doomed but I believe we’re in extremely serious trouble and must unite ...

The German American philosopher Hannah Arendt was a deeply problematic anti-communist intellectual who traded in her initial attraction to Marxism for Western Cold War ideology. She celebrated the ...

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 ...

In 1963, writing her first seminal dispatch from the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt observed that whoever built the Israeli Palace of Justice “obviously had a theater in mind.” The space ...

“There is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me, and that’s very good.” – Donald Trump, January 2026, In response to a question regarding checks that remained ...