Asking How could they do it? about the many ordinary people who have been perpetrators & those who resist extensive evils-genocide human trafficking endemic sexualized violations of females economic exploitation-the book delves into historic contemporary national & international examples The author a moral philosopher draws also on literature psychology economics journalism pop culture Reversing Arendt's banality of evil she finds that mind-deadening banality thoughtless conventionality ambition greed status-seeking enable the evil of banality