In April 1983, a British newspaper, The Sunday Times, claimed to be printing an extraordinary historical document. In fact, ...

A newly reissued book documents the dreams of Germans living under the Nazis, charting totalitarianism’s power over the ...

Though separate in time and place, these “strongmen” share pathological characteristics, weaknesses such as suspiciousness ...

His 1939 novel, “Beware of Pity” (NYRB Classics, $18.95), tells the story of a twisted psychological “romance” grounded in a ...

I understand very well why it is wrong to compare Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich to any other movement,” former Democratic ...

In St. Paul, a special art gallery is open featuring hundreds of works by Holocaust survivor Lucy Kreisler Smith, who ...

When our waking thoughts get transmuted into dreams, what do we learn?

U.S. politics seems more divided than ever before, and one comparison might just make the point more than anything else. For ...

Biographies abound of Hitler, Stalin and Mao, but those of Kim are hard to come by: “Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader,” by Suh Dae-sook, was the last good one, published in 1988 ...

All across the United States, people are rising up--refusing to be complicit in the slow-motion annihilation of democracy.

April 8, 2025 “The beginnings of her thinking run in direct parallel to the rise of Adolf Hitler,” historian Lyndsey Stonebridge says in the film. Arendt’s writings after she fled Germany in ...