The Modern Pillory by Pim Fortuyn The subject of pedophilia is all over the newspapers. Following the Doutroux affair in Belgium, the Netherlands has its own affairs, ripe and green, from murder to ...

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That paradigm of textual parallelism has been supplanted by this recent wordplay from the New York Daily News: “Same Old Schlong & Dance.” The Yiddish slang for penis — or should I say schlang — is ...

The Pillory WAYS of handing out punishment have often been inventive as well as cruel. Public shaming has been practised since time immemorial, and in Slovakia continued right up to the early 20th ...

I was reading about Bernie Madoff’s sentence, and I started to realize the court system, both nationally and locally, seems to have options: Maximum sentence or parole. Really, there doesn’t seem to ...

Almost everyone has at least heard of Daniel Defoe, or at the very least, his most famous work: The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Sailor of York. But aside from novels, Defoe ...