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Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

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• Pardon the plug, but what I like most about Toronto is Metro Morning's audience. I think it's got to be the most multi-faceted, multi-lingual, omni-curious collection of plugged-in people I've ever encountered.

  

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• Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Evil
  • Banality