Volume 5, Number 12 · January 20, 1966

"The Formidable Dr. Robinson": A Reply

By Hannah Arendt

Miss Arendt, said Mr. Laqueur in his review of Jacob Robinson's book And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight (NYR, Nov. 11) 'had stumbled on what seemed a hornets' nest but is in fact a very intricate and painful problem.' This sentence would be true if it read: 'She stumbled on what in fact was a hornets' nest because she had touched upon what seemed an intricate problem and is indeed a painful one.'



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