The word perfidy has the antiquarian ring of a dead-letter crime, one that persists on the books because no one has bothered to remove it. (It also sounds, in the phrase perfidious Jews, like classic ...

Perfidy — from the French perfidie via the Latin perfidia — means deceitfulness, treachery or a breach of faith or promise. The Oxford English Dictionary traces its earliest known use to 1592, when it ...

The English word isn’t one we hear often although it fits a number of situations. The Spanish translation became the title of a delightful melody that I heard not long ago — which inspired this column ...

Last week, The New York Times broke the news that the aircraft the US used to attack a boat in the Caribbean last September, killing 11 people, had a paint job that made it look like a civilian plane.