"Will it be permanently victimizing ourselves, and whining, whining, whining?"

"Or will it be something else: the something else is the syntax of life, the vocabulary and the lexicon of the Holocaust survivors sayi...

Tages-Anzeiger "starved to death after embarking on a spiritual diet that required her to stop eating or drinking and live off sunlight alone."

Another saint, gone. Having gotten that far drafting this post, I went looking for saints who have starved to death. I found the story of Ma...

"Newt Gingrich Robocall: Mitt Romney Forced Holocaust Survivors To Eat Non-Kosher Food."

"As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney vetoed a bill paying for kosher food for our seniors in nursing homes. Holocaust survivors, ...

Sara Goldrick-Rab imposes a racial critique on last week's affirmative-action protest at the Doubletree Hotel.

Remember last Tuesday: Roger Clegg of the Center for Equal Opportunity had a press conference to announce 2 studies that, he said, showed th...

"Music is God. In difficult times, you feel it. Especially when you are suffering."

Today is the 107th birthday of Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest living Holocaust survivor. "I am richer than other people."

When do we want to see actors pretend to go through what actually was a horrible experience that happened to real people, when we also know exactly what happened?

ALOTT5MA says: Suggest a form of physical suffering you'd rather endure this weeken than spending $10+ to watch James Franco reenact wha...

Please don't kill the neighborhood children with your sculptural evocation of the Holocaust.

"[Lewis Greenberg, 66, a] retired art teacher in Ballwin was sentenced to 20 days in jail Monday after he refused to make changes to ar...

"Our reflexive response to 'Everybody Draw Mohammad Day'... was sympathetic. But Althouse prompted us to reconsider."

"Us" = Best of the Web (James Taranto): "Piss Christ" is not an entirely apposite example, for it prompted no threats of...

The man who put the heads on the Pez dispenser.

Curtis Allina. A classic obituary , depicting a man you're only hearing about because he has died. He was 87. The heads went on the disp...

Who stole the "Arbeit macht frei" sign?

Neo-Nazis/Holocaust deniers hoping to prove the sign is fake? ADDED: Jules Crittenden has some doubt that it was Holocaust deniers: [I]t cou...

"The bigoted past of Ron Paul."

Look, I said it on Bloggingheads : The things Ron Paul has been saying made me suspect that his libertarianism was a cover for racism. Liste...

"Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers...."

John Hawkins collects 40 "obnoxious" quotes from 2007, including a few I don't remember seeing before, like that one from Ell...

Having Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speak at Columbia University "is required by existing norms of free speech," says Lee C. Bollinger.

Here 's the text of the speech by Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger as he gave the stage to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday. ...

“You exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator.”

Columbia University president Lee Bollinger said to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad's response: I think the text read by the...

Ben Stein hates Borat.

Let's see why. I should say first -- and before reading Stein's comments -- that I saw the movie a few weeks ago. Why didn't I ...

"If we do hear from my great-uncle, I'll be sure to let you know."

"Until then, though, I'll be working under the assumption that the Holocaust happened." AND: Consider this , from Anne Appleba...

Well, is this NSFW?

It's Susan Hallowell , the director of the Transportation Security Administration's security laboratory, as X-rayed by the "bac...

Sacha Baron Cohen, working as a tool.

Rolling Stone has an interview with Sacha Baron Cohen that's billed as his only out-of-character interview. (Via Metafilter .) He's...

"To have to listen to people say, ‘You lied to us, you cheated, you did this to us!' It hurts, especially since they are survivors.”

NYU lawprof Burt Neuborne tells of his painful struggle representing Holocaust victims. The crusading attorney helped to win $1.25 billion ...

"UW should promote discussion rooted in scholarly analysis, not the grassy knoll."

The Badger Herald -- one of the UW student newspapers -- reconsiders its position on Kevin Barrett (the part-time teacher here who believes...