Mark Twain famously said, “History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.” I’ve been thinking about the political historian ...

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 ...

In June 2023, I visited Majdanek, in Poland, one of the 1000+ concentration camps Nazi Germany built to kill millions of Jews. The barracks were wooden, the watchtowers unremarkable, the gas chambers ...

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 ...

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 ...