Nennen wir es böse

Book Presentation & Conversation with Susan Neiman, Berlin | As part of the series "On the Ropes: Midterms in America"

It is not uncommon for the sharpest weapon against the rampant unscrupulousness of our time to be a single, blunt word. Master thinker Susan Neiman—once a celebrated philosopher at Yale and Tel Aviv and director of the Einstein Forum until 2026—has watched long enough as the abuse of power and greed masquerade as mere consequences of “difficult times.” In her groundbreaking book on morality in the Trump era, *Let’s Call It Evil*, she sets the record straight with her characteristic clarity: For those who fail to name political misconduct make themselves complicit in its normalization. With the cool head of a Kantian scholar and the fervor of someone who’s had enough, Neiman dissects how democracies have forgotten how to be outraged by the obvious evil in society—and have thus become all the more ripe for radicalism.