This was more interesting than the first volume, and that's mostly due to the greater emphasis on examples over theory. I couldn't swear that the ratio was actually any different, to be honest, but it felt as if it were. Look, there's no getting around the fact that this series is a dense read; I'm slowly making my way through it, often at no more than 25 pages a day. But sometimes material is worth taking the time to think about and understand, and that's the case here. One of Arendt's main arguments in this volume is that colonisation is a driving factor in the development of totalitarianism, and she makes a pretty convincing argument. The lengthy section on race in South Africa was especially illuminating - genuinely fascinating, actually - the kind of extended example which makes theory clearer and which was so often lacking in the first book.