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December 30, 2025

Four Decades before the Experts, Norman Podhoretz Saw Through Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann

A report on the perversity of brilliance.

Norman Podhoretz was many things, but one thing he was not was a scholar. Yet he had a unique mental acuity that allowed him to intuit what historians would eventually unearth. The great example was his devastating 1963 takedown of Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, a book that remains one of the most widely read studies of the Holocaust, despite having been largely discredited. 

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