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Hannah Arendt’s "Eichmann in Jerusalem" was published fifty years ago. It’s hard to think of another work capable of setting off ferocious polemics a half-century after its publication. This time, a new critical consensus is emerging, one that at first glimpse might seem to resolve the debates of a half century ago. This new consensus holds that Arendt was right in her general claim that many evildoers are normal people but was wrong about Eichmann in particular.