October 9th, 20250President Trump got one thing right in his combative speech to the United Nations General Assembly last month. The U.N., he said, had such great promise, but it has failed to live up to its potential. Few reasonable people would disagree.
But Trump’s approach to the organization’s perceived failures is exactly wrong. Insulting its...
August 29th, 20250When Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “the banality of evil” in her reflections on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, she shocked the world by suggesting that unspeakable crimes could be carried out not only by fanatics but by ordinary men who operated through bureaucratic obedience and a refusal to think critically about the consequences...
