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Political Trials
By Roger BerkowitzIn the final chapters of Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt worries that the very strength of the Israeli Court in its trial of Adolf Eichmann—its fairness and its fidelity to law—prevented the court from understanding that Eichmann’s unprecedented acts required a political rather than a legal response. Eichmann himself argued that if he were guilty, it was of “aiding and abetting” in the commission of horrific crimes, that he himself had not...
10-22-2019
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What We're Reading
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Virtual Reading Group: The Life of the Mind
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Is Lying A Political Virtue?
This piece, by Uday S. Mehta, was originally published in Volume 1 of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center. 06-14-2019
What We're Reading: Legal and Political Constitutionalism
The preservation of liberal and free government piques our interest this week.06-14-2019