Q&A: Author Samantha Rose Hill on Hannah Arendt

The famed political theorist escaped the Nazis, yet was "canceled" for her writing on Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Since 2016, many have turned to her to explain Trump and illiberalism.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the most celebrated political theorists of the twentieth century, and has enjoyed a renaissance in the twenty-first. In the aftermath of the election of Donald Tr…