The Banality of Evil
29 August 2025By CLUE Executive Director, Reverend Jennifer Gutierrez Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “banality of evil” when she was covering the Adolf Eichmann trial in 1961. Eichmann was a senior member of the Nazi party and a primary perpetrator of Hitler’s so-called Final Solution. What impressed Arendt during the trial was that Eichmann seemed primarily motivated