Some conservatives seem to think no good can be served from reading these words, but that’s a mistake: It’s always useful to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The question we should be asking right now is not: will this happen again? It absolutely could happen again. But what ...

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 ...

“Ideological fanaticism” is precisely the right term for a regime willing to kill its own citizens over a head covering. The good people of Iran have been subjected to this fanaticism ever since the ...

All of which makes her a frightfully dangerous person, because her thought fragments tend toward evil and are amplified by her advisers. This is where things get worse, because those around her likely ...

Years from now, people will continue to respect Arendt’s work, while they no longer respect Erdely’s. But some of the criticism of Arendt’s book, including her basis for the phrase “banality of evil,” ...

Billions of non-human beings are killed by explosions and implosions in wars whose violence we have grown to ‘tolerate’ — yet ...

An unnamed Memphis Police officer smiles as EMTs examine Tyre Nichols. Three days later, Nichols died of injuries inflicted by members of the Memphis Police Department’s SCORPION unit. (Photo: City of ...