Eichmann in Jerusalem. Reposting on the 60th anniversary of its publication.
Sixty years ago, the New Yorker published a long analytical essay on the Eichmann trial by the famous intellectual Hannah Arendt. It became an instant classic. It also became the center of rabid controversy. This is a short discussion of Hannah Arendt, of her life, and of what happened when she published her discussion of this trial.