Hannah Arendt in 10 Minutes

Everything Jewish - 10 Minutes at a Time · Apr 22, 2026 · 10m

Witness the "thinker without a banister" in our episode on Hannah Arendt, one of the most influential and controversial political theorists of the 20th century. In this installment, we unpack her journey as a Jewish refugee fleeing Nazi Germany, an experience that forged her profound obsession with the nature of power, authority, and evil. We'll dive into her landmark work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, where she analyzed how Nazism and Stalinism weren't just extreme versions of old tyrannies, but a terrifyingly new form of government that sought to destroy human individuality and reality…