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https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/04/15/from-the-archive-the-banality-of-empathy/
From the Archive: ‘The Banality of Empathy’ | Namwali Serpell, Lovia Gyarkye | The New York Review...
Apr 15, 2026 - In March 2019 Namwali Serpell wrote for the NYR Online about a choose-your-own-adventure-style episode of the television show Black Mirror, Karl Ove
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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-banality-of-complicity-arendts-guide-to-moral-resistance-in-the-age-of-trump/
The Banality of Complicity: Arendt's Guide to Moral Resistance in the Age of Trump
Dec 24, 2025 - Even in seemingly powerless positions, the choice to withdraw one’s support from corrupt systems remains a meaningful assertion of humanity.
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https://www.nybooks.com/online/2019/03/02/the-banality-of-empathy/
The Banality of Empathy | Namwali Serpell | The New York Review of Books
May 28, 2025 - The idea that art promotes empathy has become a platitude. This idea is particularly prevalent when it comes to those works of art described as “narrative”:...
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https://journals.uni-goettingen.de/movements/article/view/2717/2757
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https://redsails.org/the-banality-of-genius/
The Banality of Genius
You can identify a Very Important Person because they get the proper VIP treatment: they come surrounded by an entourage of PR gurus, secretaries, agents,...
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/brendan-carr-fcc-banality-evil-1235532152/
Brendan Carr, the FCC, and the Banality of Evil
Mar 17, 2026 - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr is a brown-nosing bureaucrat, which is why he's so dangerous as Donald Trump's media minion.
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https://journals.uni-goettingen.de/movements/article/view/2717/2733
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https://journals.uni-goettingen.de/movements/article/view/2717
The Italian Coast Guard and the Banality of Evil at Sea: An Interview with Admiral Vittorio...
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/ahmaud-arberys-killing-exposes-the-banality-of-american-evil/?ref=author
Ahmaud Arbery’s Killing Exposes the Banality of American Evil
Sep 21, 2024 - In America, and especially the South, criminality is stamped on black bodies from birth.
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