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Wilhelm Marr introduced the terms “anti-Semitism” and “anti-Semite” into the German language in 1879 to denote a programmatic political agenda; English-language writers soon picked it up, and in both English and German—as in a...
Presidents of the U.S. don't get scared. They get security. But if the murder of an American diplomat in Karachi last week underlined the fact that George W. Bush was on one of his riskier foreign trips, the President was probably unaware he was skirting not two conflict zones...
Even if it does, the broader issues raised by the current furor are certain to persist. To some, the dispute over the cartoons is a bellwether of a deepening divide between Western societies and Islam, a civilizational clash on issues as basic as the role of religion in society and...
It was a subtle semantic change in the official diagnosis of this form of mutism that helped change doctors' perceptions, says Dr. Bruce Black, a psychiatrist in Wellesley, Mass., who conducted some of the first empirical studies on SM in the early 1990s. Until about 15 years ago, children were...
In defense of his book, Frey invoked the fundamentally subjective nature of the memoir. "It's an individual's perception," he said to King, "my recollection." And he's right. Any memoir is unavoidably filtered through the author's memory and feelings and the inherently impressionistic nature of any literary...