Hannah Arendt’s 1936 lectures in Paris, where she had spent the past year and a half, were the first signals to the émigré population at large that she still had something to say. They were her att…

Before Hannah Arendt defined the nature of totalitarian evil, she worked against it at the risk of her own safety.

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The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.

Image: Mt. Vesuvius, near Naples This unusual book prompted a lengthy essay in The New Yorker magazine on Nov. 25, 2024. It was written by the editor of Granta, Thomas Meaney, and I will not presume to improve upon that analysis here. I will however, offer some thoughts, fractal in nature, that migh...

The European far right’s pushback showed the limits of the president’s with-me-or-against-me politics, a key obstacle to cooperation among nationalist parties.

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Some German lawmakers want to ban Alternative for Germany, but the party has been embraced in Washington, and some of its leaders see Trump’s path to power as a road map.

His work grappled with the tricky nature of interpreting between languages and embraced the potential of language itself to help us understand the human condition.

Social media influencer Naomi Seibt, a supporter of the nationalist AfD party, said she is being persecuted in Germany for her political views.

Read an excerpt from the book 'Art and Crime: The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World.'

Two regions competing for bragging rights to bratwurst, Germany’s signature sausage, took their battle into a boxing ring in a ham-fisted bid to settle the matter.

Wary of a warmongering Russia, Germany is refitting its military, buying weapons, recruiting soldiers and also contemplating new strategic reserves of canned food.

Some government employees were told this week that they have until Monday to report to offices that in some cases are hundreds of miles away.

These titles, all published in the USA or Canada in 2024, were submitted for consideration for this year's Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize.

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