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Understanding and Misunderstanding Arendt’s Banality of Evil Today The Fragility of Checks and Balances in Institutions 19 February 2021 While we tend to think of evil as a peril of anti-democratic regimes, its banal form as an inability to think about the effect and meaning of our own actions can spread through institutions regardless of the regime. After observing the Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961, the Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt came up with the phrase “banality of evil�...

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‘The dangerous proximity between Switzerland’s neutrality and the banality of evil’ Swiss neutrality should be questioned from a moral perspective, says literary scholar Simon D. Trüb. Neutrality can suggest moral superiority, while Switzerland often acts primarily in its own interests, he writes. This content was published on February 12, 2021 - 09:00 February 12, 2021 - 09:00 Simon D. Trüb, Literary scholar in English literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany See ...

PZ: Or really? Well, okay. SS: Yes, were globe-wide. So lets talk about the famous Stanford Prison Experiment. It continues to be one of the most controversial in the history of psychological studies, being constantly revisited, reinterpreted. You stand by the results, saying that the social roles imposed on us and external pressures can influence our actions, even without us knowing. Are you saying that humans are powerless against the circumstances? PZ: Oh, no. So what I should mention from ...

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Amin al-Husseini: Fanning the Flames of Anti-Jewish Sentiment Born into a wealthy and influential Jerusalemite family during the Ottoman rule over Palestine, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini was destined to become a significant figure in Palestinian history. Male members of his family had held key religious positions in Jerusalem since the eighteenth century. The family also had great political influence: more than a third of Jerusalem’s mayors between 1877 and 1914 were members of the al-Husseini c...

(RNS) — The debate about the late Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust — what he knew and why he did not openly denounce it — has been hotly contested for decades in articles, books and conferences. In Berlin, it’s now taken to the streets. To one street, to be more precise. The Pacelliallee, a tree-lined boulevard in western Berlin, bears the name of Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli, the Vatican’s nuncio in Germany from 1917 to 1929 who later became Pope Pius XII. The long-awaited opening of th...

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The writer is an author. AFTER spotting a reference to the poet Dom Moraes in my article on Ved Mehta, a thoughtful reader wrote to tell me that he owned a copy of Dom’s first book The Grass is Greener (1951). It was published when he was only 13 years old. Its subject was not poetry, for which he later became world famous, but cricket. Its frayed dust jacket describes him as possessing “an amazing precocity”. Curiously, Dom never mentions it in any of his autobiographies, except in a cas...

Article content One of my father’s most unnerving war stories came on an eight-day “death march”. Dad was with a group of POWs that was being escorted by the Wehrmacht soldiers who were guarding his Stalag. The SS were evacuating inmates from Auschwitz, and since it was going to be their last opportunity, they ran amok with violence that shocked the American airmen who had already seen so much. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Learning to live...