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The Banality of Evil, 2025 Edition

October 7th, 2025 | 5 min read

By Nadya Williams

A middle-aged man sits in a glass booth, or perhaps a cage. He seems bewildered, surprised to be there. His nervousness is visibly manifest to all onlookers—the trembling mouth, the shocked near-sighted eyes, the hands nervously clutching each other for comfort. 

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Nadya Williams

Nadya Williams is the Books Editor at Mere Orthodoxy. She holds a PhD in Classics from Princeton University and is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church; Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity; and Christians Reading Classics (forthcoming Zondervan Academic, 2025). She and her husband Dan joyfully live and homeschool in Ashland, Ohio.

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