Mark Twain famously said, “History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.” I’ve been thinking about the political historian ...

Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader is one of those tricky novels that, based on the sober moral questions it poses and its close-to-elegant style, pretends to high literary seriousness while offering its ...

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 ...

When the images of dead Palestinian children become a punchline on a television show, where the host, guest, and the audience engage in nervous laughter, then what we are witnessing is not only the ...

Lyndsey Stonebridge, a professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham, is the author of “We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience.” ...