So why do intellectuals pretend otherwise?
The publication of some of Martin Heidegger’s “black notebooks”—unpublished writings from the Nazi era—have shown the extent of the support for Hitler given by the. . .
Western analysts often seem at a loss to explain why volunteers are flocking to join the Islamic State (IS). The answer, writes Paul Berman, lies. . .
As the intellectual historian Richard Wolin has explained, several recent works have firmly discredited Hannah Arendt’s famous (and notorious) Eichmann in Jerusalem and its. . .
In some academic precincts, anti-Zionism is no longer simply political but the expression of a “philosophical” system purporting to explain any and all conflict.
Leo Strauss and Martin Heidegger were both critics of modernity. One defended liberal democracy; the other sought to destroy it.
To the philosopher Martin Heidegger, as to the Nazis he supported, the German spirit lay under mortal threat of “Jewification” by “Semitic nomads.”