Word: inquisitioner
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Ferraro passed the test, all right. But who benefits from the inquisition? Politicians should be judged by their policies and achievements rather than their private conduct. Robespierre, who sent hundreds to the guillotine, was called "the Incorruptible." Hitler, the nonsmoking, nondrinking vegetarian, always paid his taxes. These admirable characteristics hardly...
Perhaps. But the most galling thought for Democrats must be that the whole controversy might have been avoided, or at least prevented from reaching the dangerous point that it did, with a bit more foresight and more cooperation between the presidential and vice-presidential nominees. To begin with, the Mondale...
Liberalism is under attack from all sides--political, cultural, and philosophical--and as a political creed it sorely needs a defender, a knight in shining armor. Yet Cuomo, a deeply religious man, approaches liberalism as he does Catholicism, reciting the party line as an article of faith rather than as...
for example, the finding of sunspots, which were also seen by other 17th century observers. He wrote in a highly flamboyant style, scorning a scholarly Latin for vernacular Italian in order to reach a broader public. Among those who felt the bite of his pen were Jesuit astronomers. Some members...
Convinced that the wily scientist had made a fool of him, Urban signaled the Inquisition to proceed against Galileo.