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Hunting Eichmann
Hunting Eichmann This is not a book review, despite the book title above. I haven’t read the book, only watched a talk before a packed hall by Neal Bascomb, the author of Hunting Eichmann, on a C-Span history program last … Continue reading
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Tagged "Jewish", Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, Adolf Eichmann, analyzing Eichmann, Argentine dictator, author’s normality, banality of evil, book lecture, book review, bureaucratic mindset, C-span history program, Eichmann’s son Klaus, Eichmann’s sons, German Prosecutor-General, Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Holocaust, Holocaust executioner, international negotiation, Israeli ambassador, Israeli diplomat, Israeli intelligence, Jerusalem trial, Josef Avidar, kidnapping Eichmann, Mossad, Nazi refuge, Nazi war criminals, Neal Bascomb’s Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi, no hunting season, no news is good news, non-fiction suspense story, organization man, plot reversals, Ricardo Klement, secret agent, Shin Bet, spy story, the Eichmann trial, the Nazi escape line, the rat line, the word Jewish, time traveler, war crimes tribunals, West German government
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“Evil is Really Not Banal”
“Evil is Really Not Banal” This past week we’ve been in California, where I’ve resumed my treatments for neuropathy at the Loma Linda hospital. The other event of the week, salient for me, was a talk at the Claremont School … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", audience Q&A, author/publisher relation, “The Rake’s Progress”, banality of evil, behaviorism, Bernard Harrison’s Blaming the Jews: The Persistence of a Delusion, blaming the Jews, book endorsements, book reviewers, book reviews, bureaucratic mindset, Claremont School of Theology, Coincidences, conscious evil, diabolical cunning, Evil, evil personified, excusing the Holocaust, explaining evil, fiction and real life, fighting the good fight, firming resolve, futile counterargument, groupthink, guidance from above, Hannah Arendt, Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Holocaust research, illustrations from life, knee fracture, Loma Linda Hospital, meaning what you say, moral coverup, Nazi arguments, Nazi canards, Nazi materials, Nazi talking points, neuropathy treatments, publishing snafus, speaker event, synchronicities, the Holocaust, the seducer, theologians, traps of argument, truth stranger than fiction, white-washing evil, wolf in sheep’s clothing
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