Micah's most beloved verse is more than a spiritual to-do list.
Mark Gignilliat
In the early 1960s, political writer Hannah Arendt attended the trials of Adolf Eichmann, the German officer who had orchestrated much of the Holocaust. She expected to find a monster. How could it be otherwise? Only a deranged psychopath could lend his considerable organizational skills to the mass murder of millions in Nazi Germany. What stunned Arendt and enraged some of her readers was her startling discovery of a "normal" and "simple" man at the trial. The notorious architect of the Holocaust did not appear as a devil but as a banal bureaucrat doing what he was told. continue reading >>
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