In a new documentary, Hannah Arendt becomes the patron saint of anti-fascism

In a new documentary, Hannah Arendt becomes the patron saint of anti-fascism

Since Trump’s first term, Hannah Arendt has loomed large in op-eds and political commentary; the German-Jewish thinker’s book The Origins of Totalitarianism has made for a handy resource in comparing Trump’s tactics to Hitler’s strategies for taking power. Her most famous phrase — on the “banality of evil” — feels like it comes up about once a week. As brilliant as her observation on the nature of evil was, however, this narrow focus has had the…