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On Banality Journalism; What is a Liberal? Part Two: The Moderate Liberal

The most boring people in the world are no longer entertained.

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Nov 04, 2019
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Banality Critique: History of a Genre

The bon mot from Hannah Arendt’s report on Eichmann’s trial has spawned, sixty years later, an entire genre of liberal think piece. Arendt’s emphasis on the bureaucratic exoskeleton of Nazism was insightful because the appearance and social characteristics of the perpetrators stood in such extreme contrast to their a…

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