Political theorist Hannah Arendt came of age in Germany as Hitler came to power. Her life and writings have a chilling resonance for Americans today.

In the thousand letters she wrote and received, friendship emerges as one of the great and palpable joys of Hannah Arendt’s life ... of Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt’s character was as much a target ...

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 ...

And now, one book on, and a third in progress, the tape holding those ten words of Hannah Arendt’s above my drawing board is still holding strong.

Hannah Arendt attempted yesterday to clear away the confusion surrounding the moral dilemma which faced citizens of Nazi Germany. The noted political scientist, whose recent book, Eichmann in ...

That was dramatically clear this week when I participated in a preview and discussion of a documentary on the life of German American Hannah ... In Arendt’s first major book, “The Origins ...