Boris (Bruce) Kriger·Jun 13The Evil of Banality: Hannah Arendt, Frames, Awareness, and the Refusal to Look AwayWe have spent sixty years repeating Hannah Arendt’s most famous phrase without noticing that she may have left it half-finished. Evil, she…
Darwin Gosal·Mar 22Not Evil, Just Working as DesignedWhy the most consequential harms of our era come not from malicious actors, but from ordinary people inside systems designed to produce…
Charles Hugh Smith·Feb 9The Banality of Evil and Those Who Said NoThe Epstein files have unleashed a flood tide of bleatings of innocence and accusations of guilt by association. This is just what we’d…A response icon4A response icon4
JourneeMan (Malcolm)·Jan 27The Banality of Evil: How Ordinary People Become Instruments of DestructionA Christian Reflection on Misusing ‘Fascism’ in Polarized Times.
Dean Obeidallah·Jan 14If you ever wondered how Germans became Nazis, you’re seeing it firsthand with Renee Good’s murder
Susanna Barabanova·Dec 10, 2025The Banality of Reception: Why Don’t We Hear?For a university course on intercultural communication, I recently wrote an essay on Hannah Arendt and the controversy surrounding her book…
Otis Haschemeyer·Dec 1, 2025Eugene Oregon’s Banality of EvilMurder of a BIPOC dad in the City of White Supremacy
fsab·Oct 7, 2025The Banality of Automation: Why Thinking Has Become RevolutionaryYou no longer have to deliberate, compare, or even click through: the system knows, and it decides, tailored for you.
