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This fanaticism we in the West will never understand. by PROFESSOR JOHN CASEY, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. The attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon constitute ...
Fanaticism may be rising alarmingly fast. But it’s a very old problem. Several of history’s greatest thinkers offered solutions to the problem plaguing our politics ...
Consequently fanaticism thrives in settings like prerevolutionary Russia or Weimar Germany, where a myriad of new lifestyle options rapidly emerges alongside an underlying sense of instability as ...
A Greek artist whose work was vandalised by a far-right nationalist MP warned last week that fanaticism could spiral out of control in Western democracies. Niki, known for its nationalistic and ...
Lately it’s hard to escape from fanaticism — whether it arrives through the cults of personality around certain billionaires, mass paranoia about transgender people or the belief that vaccines ...
U.S. Rep. Chris Smith is now putting that effort at risk over his fanaticism on the issue of abortion. His objection is that some organizations that receive money through this program, ...
Letters to the Editor: Why ‘their fanaticism is why we’re polarized’ misses the point. Trump supporters march as an anti-Trump protesters yell from the sidewalk in downtown L.A. in 2017.
Religious fanaticism in Nigeria has been a significant barrier to national progress since independence. Various radical Islamic groups, most notably Boko Haram, emerged in the North to challenge ...
Disclaimer: The fanaticism I refer to is neither the madness in belittling the achievement of one’s champion’s rival, nor the expectation or hope of something improbable from your hero.
The heavy political overtones accompanying this year's Academy Awards became evident in advance of Sunday's ceremony, as directors of the five foreign-language film nominees Friday issued an ...