When most people think of the Spanish Inquisition, they typically think of torture (or Monty Python), and for good reason.

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

James Mandrell teaches Hispanic studies at Brandeis University, where he chairs the women's and gender studies department. The release of Bush administration torture memos proves one thing at least: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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(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 ...