Tag: Hannah Arendt

  • Nation & World

    Engaging with Arendt

    Four lectures focusing on Hannah Arendt, the political theorist best known for coining the phrase “the banality of evil” when she wrote about the trial of Nazi architect Adolf Eichmann for The New Yorker in the early ’60s, will be held March 9 and 30 and April 6 and 20 at the Minda de Gunzburg…

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Europe’s calmer side

    A Harvard Summer School course will take a novel approach to European history, examining centuries of violence through the lens of peace.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A character fit for a novel

    For 13 months from 1940 to 1941, Harvard graduate Varian Fry forged papers and planned rescue routes from occupied France for a list of people that reads like a Who’s Who of Europe’s cultural and political elite. Author Julie Orringer is spending her year at Radcliffe working on a novel about Fry’s life.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The gifts of immigration

    Two Harvard researchers say that new U.S. residents, most of whom are young and nonwhite, reflect not just policy challenges, but an immense reservoir of social potential.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Poetic Urbanisms’

    An experimental exhibit at Harvard’s newest arts space gathers and displays overlooked images and ideas from city life.

    4 minutes