A new book on Eichmann supposedly proves Arendt was wrong when she spoke about the “banality of evil”. But it turns out, that phrase of Arendt’s itself is greatly misunderstood.

Aristotle and Plato famously differed about plenty, but we might take to heart what they agreed on.

A reflection on Jerome Kern, the man who created the American standard.

Indonesia struggled through decades of tumult and quasi-military rule to forge an unlikely democracy. Now it is closer than ever to achieving its potential as a geopolitical and economic powerhouse.

Rock journalist and musician Bob Stanley attempts a full-throated defense of “poptimism” and an encyclopedic account of the American music industry’s rise and fall. Both miss the mark.

How China’s bitter disappointment at the Paris Peace Conference sparked the outrage that would lead to the country’s long revolution—and the grudges that persist today.

A believer and an atheist seek out their antitheses. Do they meet somewhere in the middle, or pass in the murk of half-baked pseudo-syntheses?

Is television the new cinema? Just asking the question that way misses the point of both media.

Mainline Protestantism didn’t secularize itself via the Social Gospel and become weaker as a religion; it became a new religion—and a powerful one, too.

Two recent archival releases strengthen the case that Jimi Hendrix was more like Bach than he was like The Beatles.