The Banality of Evil: How Ordinary People Do Terrible Things
A philosopher watched a monster through bulletproof glass — and couldn't find one.
In 1961, a bulletproof glass booth in Jerusalem held a small, balding bureaucrat who had organised the deaths of millions. The philosopher who watched him through the glass couldn't find the monster she'd expected. What Hannah Arendt saw would ignite a sixty-year argument about the nature of evil, the limits of ordinary people, and whether any of us are as safe from this as we'd like to believe.
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