![]() ![]() Autocrats have risen before they have used mass violence before they have broken the laws of war before. So much of what we imagine to be new is old so many of the seemingly novel illnesses that afflict modern society are really just resurgent cancers, diagnosed and described long ago. This article has been adapted from the introduction to The Folio Society’s new edition of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. ![]() This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. ![]()
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