Baylie Gerlinger’s Reviews > Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil > Status Update

Hannah Arendt’s writing craft is immaculate and intelligent. If no one believed Eichmann during the Jerusalem trial — it was Arendt. He claimed to be stupid, and if we are to believe Arendt, he likely was. But that is what made his type of evil particularly atrocious.