Recorded October 31, 2025
Broadcast November 9, 2025
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Despite everything we’ve learned, people still commit genocide and other atrocities. One can’t help but ask how a real person could actually contribute to such inhumanity, but the reasons we get are usually abstract and unsatisfying. They rely on non-answers like, “people hate” or “people ‘other’?” or “people have no choice.” These don’t feel like answers at all. On this episode, we consider a deeper and more convincing explanation.
Elizabeth Minnich is a Distinguished Fellow at the Association of American Colleges & Universities. She taught moral philosophy and applied ethics at Queens University and is a widely published author including the book The Evil of Banality: On the Life and Death Importance of Thinking. She has dedicated her career to transformational development in education and democratic practices.
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