Marc Thiessen rightly points out that one Spanish Inquisition water-torture method in which water was funneled down a victim's throat until his or her body was bursting with liquid is not what the CIA ...

Explore the 25 Most Brutal Torture Techniques Ever Devised, from the Rack to Scaphism. Uncover the dark history of human cruelty and its devastating method ...

Matt Yglesias and Marc Thiessen have been fighting over Matt's calling waterboarding a technique used during the Spanish Inquisition. Yglesias: I suppose the natural question to ask..is why these kind ...

(JTA) — Here’s something no one expected: A reputable conservative magazine has published a column defending … the Spanish Inquisition. To be clear, this is not Monty Python. This is a column in the ...

VATICAN CITY — The Inquisition was not nearly as bad as is commonly thought. That's according to the findings of a six-year historical study released by the Vatican on June 15 that examined the trials ...

As outlined in our previous post, there are very few tales as tall as the tales told of the Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition and Catholic Spain. Among the many, many lies of the Black Legend of ...

(JTA) — Here’s something no one expected: A reputable conservative magazine has published a column defending … The Spanish Inquisition. To be clear, this is not Monty Python. This is a column in the ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Listen 38:12 This interview was ...

Paris — WHEN Milos Forman was a student in Prague in the 1950s, he read a book on the Spanish Inquisition about people confessing under torture to crimes they’d never committed. “What struck me at the ...