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The Internet as a toy with a tin ear and a wooden tongue.

As Tom Segev’s biography makes clear, in the entire pantheon of Jewish superheroes there is no more unlikely figure than Simon Wiesenthal.

Books are the only homeland of the true writer, books that may sit on shelves or in the memory.

Drug users deserve the chance to prevent HIV, too.

In Georg Letham, Ernst Weiss turned to psychoanalysis to tap an atmosphere of unknown terror and mystery.

Traveling along the Danube into the heart of the new Europe.

How Turkey is chasing China to become the next big thing.

Raul Hilberg, the first historian to document the banality of Nazi evil, nursed a lifelong grudge against the woman who borrowed from and popularized his work, Hannah Arendt.

The past was one single catastrophe to the Baader-Meinhof Gang, and acts of violence the only perceived exit.

To speak of a movement of abstractionists would be a contradiction in terms, like speaking of a church of atheists.