Großartiger Artikel über Hannah Arendt im New Yorker: „The more you realize that war criminals might be ordinary people, the more afraid you become,“ […] A dignified individual existence, she believes, requires distance from others, the „interspace“ that she described in the Hamburg speech. Compassion is dangerous, in her view, because „not unlike love,“ it [...]

Für mich als Friedens‑ und Konfliktforscherin eine nicht ganz so neue Perspektive: No country with a McDonald’s outlet, the theory contends, has ever gone to war with another. The logic is thus: countries with middle classes large enough to sustain a McDonald’s have reached a level of prosperity and global integration that makes warmongering risky [...]