When the war broke out in 1948, their grandmother and her family, the Alkoors, were forcibly displaced from their home, unable to ever return. Their fate was the same as 750,000 Palestinian families, ...

Fanaticism towards a cause, leader, or ideology can sometimes lead communities towards intolerance, aggression, and violence. To explore this darker social phenomenon, a group of Chilean researchers ...

Welcome to the Tuesday, a weekly newsletter about radicals and reactionaries — and that’s just the language stuff. The Tuesday is available only to NRPlus members: If you would like to join our little ...

If someone says, “This land, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, is all mine and only mine,” then he is out for blood. —Amos Oz, Dear Zealots I n early March the Tufts University student ...

Pope Leo XIV condemned the use of religion for justifying “war,” “violence” or “fanaticism” on Friday – instead urging Catholics to mobilize their faith and unify others “regardless of ethnicity, ...

In other words, what we call fanaticism derives from human nature itself, and we should not deprecate its force or depth. After all, the victorious British behaved with, if not fanaticism, then at ...

Does fanaticism run in families? This question has bothered me throughout my life, having emerged from a rather eccentric family that held different iterations of extremist beliefs over three ...

The contrast of winning and losing in the “good Fanatic brain.” It shows in warm colors the activity related to a significant winning. The blue scale represents the activation related to a significant ...

In his opinion piece, “The New Campus Fanaticism” (The Chronicle Review, March 12), Robert S. Huddleston proves that neither history nor consistency are his strong suits. In his opinion piece, “The ...

Does fanaticism run in families? This question has bothered me throughout my life, having emerged from a rather eccentric family that held different iterations of extremist beliefs over three ...