A Joyful & Malicious History Of ‘Schadenfreude’ by Jane Hu In an interview with Martha Stewart shortly before her 2003 indictment, Jeffrey Toobin asked the visibly exhausted celebrity if she felt herself the victim of “schadenfreude.” He didn’t expand upon the Germanism, and Stewart certainly didn’t need it defined. Schadenfreude? I asked. “That’s the word,” she said. … Continue reading A Joyful & Malicious History Of ‘Schadenfreude’