New documentary airing June 27 in the US on PBS explores how the Jewish writer and activist brought lessons from WWII Germany ...

Encore Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Discover Hannah Arendt, one of the most ...

Hannah Arendt was a German-born political theorist and philosopher best known for her influential works on totalitarianism, ... Arendt wrote many landmark books including “The Origins of ...

Jerome Kohn, who devoted his career to decoding, defending and disseminating the work of Hannah Arendt, the provocative philosopher who diagnosed the roots of 20th-century totalitarianism and who ...

What Hannah Arendt saw in Hitler’s Germany, we can see in Trump’s America Author and philosopher Hannah Arendt was a Jewish survivor and chronicler of Nazi totalitarianism. (Bettmann Archive) ...

I n the spring of 1969, Hannah Arendt solicited funding to write a book. “You may remember that more than 10 years ago I published, under the title The Human Condition, a book that dealt with ...

He had to wait until 2022 — during the Biden presidency — to workshop a piece based on Arendt’s book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.

Since Trump’s first term, Hannah Arendt has loomed large in op-eds and political commentary; the German-Jewish thinker’s book The Origins of Totalitarianism has made for a handy resource in ...

Buried deep in Hannah Arendt’s archives in the Library of Congress are two typed and handbound books of verse—short, expressive, and written by Arendt herself. Few know that Arendt, the German Jewish ...

A portrait of political theorist and author Hannah Arendt in 1949. (Fred Stein Archive / Archive Photos / Getty Images) This article appears in the January 23/30, 2023 issue .