“When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism.”
-Martin Luther King, Harvard University, 1968

“I was amazed at how many intellectuals took issue with me over a piece I wrote a while back for the New York Times saying I was against the practice of Israeli soldiers going door-to-door and randomly ( Read more... )

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Ray: Then I do know a Belgian joke. What’s Belgium famous for? Chocolates and child abuse. And they only invented the chocolates to get to the kids!
-Martin McDonagh, In Bruges


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An exchange in the letter archive of this month’s Poetry commemorates the contribution of self-described “hyphenated American poet” Marilyn Chin to the rectification of names in response to publisher Joseph Bednarik’s criticism of her translations of Vietnamese poetess Ho Xuan Huong. Bednarik wonders as to which Nym character means “boo hoo” in ( Read more... )

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“But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the ( Read more... )

Он же гвайлох.

The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know (pause) there’s a reaction in her that doesn’t go away and it comes out in the wrong way.
-Barack Hussein Obama, call to Philadelphia sports radio 610 WIP, 20 March 2008

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1. Let Us Honor Great Italian War Heroes;


2. Two Millennia of German Humanism;
3. A Manual of French Hygiene;


4. Recognizing British Heterosexuality;


5. A Field Guide to Great American Lovers;