Nazi students in Germany staged massive bonfires to incinerate the works of writers they deemed “un-German.” From Freud to ...

That echoes Trump’s repeated insistence he really won the 2020 election or that the violent Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection was “a day of love,” lies that most Republicans say they believe though, ...

From Troy to Vietnam, the historian Barbara Tuchman explores the perplexing question of why countries sometimes pursue ...

MR OPPENHEIMER: We should look at speeches to get a sense of what peoples positions are. Now, you have a speech that has been, we have played extracts f rom it in this court that are on page 203 of ...

Many people are hungry for books that explore trauma: Dr. Bessel van der Kolk’s “The Body Keeps the Score” has sold more than ...

Few exhibitions at the moment could be more timely than Degenerate Art: Modern Art on Trial Under the Nazis, on show at the Musée Picasso in Paris (until 25 May). It covers the propaganda ...

According to his LinkedIn profile, Pemberton-Zikeli previously served as a Military Police officer in the U.S. Army Reserves, ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East. By Leonard S. Marcus Laurie Halse Anderson returns to the ...

“Antisemitism is the socialism of fools” — the famous phrase falsely ascribed to the 19th-century German socialist Auguste Bebel — has had all too many reasons to be cited over the ...

It’s a good month for criticism in the literary world, with new books in April exploring everything from early-’00s feminism to modern TV and video games. On the fiction side, there’s a new ...

In “The Stained Glass Window,” David Levering Lewis delves into his ancestry to create a fuller picture of his family and its place in American history. David Sheff’s new biography, “Yoko ...

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