Welcome to Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays and history we couldn’t cram into The Week in Preview. Of all the inquisitions instituted over the centuries to weed out heresy, the Tribunal ...

Back in the Middle Ages, the Inquisition was a byword for fear and terror in Europe. Its tribunals, set up by the Vatican to ensure that "heretics" did not undermine ...

(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 ...

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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 ...