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Why everyone is quoting Hannah Arendt, sometimes even accurately

The German-Jewish political theorist, who wrote about the uses of misinformation under totalitarian governments, is riding a wave of popularity.

Masha Gessen will receive Hannah Arendt Prize after all, following controversy over Gaza essay

One critic claimed that Gessen’s New Yorker essay, in which they quoted Arendt, “is in clear contrast” to the philosopher.

How a Protestant New Yorker Smuggled Marc Chagall and Hannah Arendt Out of Nazi France

In 1994, a man whose later years were spent as a high school Latin teacher was recognized by Yad Vashem as a righteous among the nations. In 1935, it turns out, Mr. Varian Fry traveled to Berlin to report on the German government’s banning of all non-Aryans from military service and the criminalization of homosexuality. […]