The rendering of the name "Victor Pitchman", reputed to be an Austrian soldier, is quite likely incorrect unless he was a runaway from a touring American medicine show. The spelling of the last name does not answer to any norms of ...

In reaction to Wednesday's Foreign Affairs Committee vote, Turks in the provinces are burning Barbie and Spiderman dolls. (At least they're not burning Armenians and Jews, or they can't find any.) Also, dozens of McDonald's employees ...

Knotty theodicy confronts nitwits like McCain and patriotic fundamentalists here, apart from their self-congratulatory air because they purport to be Christians. (Me, I always thought they were Protestants, and God was cursing them endlessly ...

No, no, blow job or not, you're missing the point (!), Michael. No matter how many Jewish groups are set to the task of vilifying each other, none is supposed to mount its attacks in a manifestly nitwitted and sloppy manner. A shanda of ...

If we who are oppressed by derogatory ethnic associations can't always control the narrative, we can still control the symbolism. If those of Jewish faith and/or heritage were to adopt a spelling Gieu (plural: Gieux), the detractors would be ...

All last week Turkish columnists for the newspapers Zaman, Sabah, and Milliyet have been writing that "the perception has become the reality," and that diplomatic pressure on foreign governments to stop ...