Arendt

Are the Poor Capitalistically Unlucky?

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 12.09.2011

Jonathan Lewis

Are poor kids unlucky to have uneducated parents, or no parents at all? Unlucky to be born in badly-governed countries? Unlucky to live in regions devoid of good schools, or electricity, or drinkable water?

Radical Evil, Torture, Auschwitz, Guantanamo

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert D. Stolorow

Even more chillingly relevant is Arendt's controversial phrase, "the banality of evil," with which she characterized the actions of the Nazi "desk murderers" like Eichmann.