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The Russian mistake was to dress up bad science in political jargon.

Nowadays it is fake scholarship in the service of a vicious political agenda that is gussied up with the borrowed terminology of science.

The body of Horowitz's book is a kind of rogues' gallery.

As a professor of Armenian studies, I've met over my lifetime hundreds of survivors of the Armenian Genocide and have read scores of testimonies in Armenian and other languages.

I've also traveled to Eastern Anatolia and spoken with Turkish and Kurdish farmers who spoke freely of the massacres.

Often the ruins of Armenian villages and even quarters of whole cities are untouched.

So I note with appreciation the inclusion of Hamid Algar, a professor of Persian and Islamic studies (and, for the record, a superb scholar) who in 1998 spat on members of the Armenian Student Association at UC Berkeley.

He is quoted as having said to them: "It was not a genocide, but I wish it were, you lying pigs...You stupid Armenians, you deserve to be massacred!

" Juan Cole of the University of Michigan is criticized for his anti-Zionist conspiracy theories, but that scarcely exhausts Ann Arbor's charms: a colleague who applied for a job in Armenian studies there recalled to me being told they would not hire anyone planning to talk about...

This left thousands of young American men grieving in their parents' basements, as the car was a star in video games such as "Gran Turismo" and "Need for Speed."Finally, in 2003, encouraged by the success of Subaru's Impreza WRX STi, Mitsubishi began importing the eighth generation of the Evo, known to praetorians as the Evo VIII.

By that time, the template was well established: Take one scandalously average-looking compact sedan; turbocharge the bejeezus out of it; rig the undercarriage with an advanced all-wheel drivetrain; string it in a cat's cradle of Bilstein shocks, stiff springs and stabilizer bars; hang some pizza-size Brembo brakes, alloy rims and gummy tires at the corners; stick a Momo wheel and some Recaro seats in the cabin; dress it in the most outrageous aero cladding, spoilers and splitters the mind of an 11-year-old can conceive … and voilà, it still looks like repurposed dog food.But fast.

Unnaturally, unhealthily, hail-Mary-full-of-torque fast.

These glorified beaters routinely outpace Po...