Hannah Arendt Answered

Never, to my knowledge, in the history of intellectual controversy has any book met such devastating refutation as Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem in Jacob Robinson’s critique, And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight.*

After Robinson’s argument not a single one of Miss Arendt’s main contentions can be credited; and a great many of her minor contentions—including
those irrelevant to her main theses—have also to be tossed out. She was wrong about Ei...