I had fully intended to take a lengthy hiatus from torture-blogging, but this story just magnifies why...
Christ’s crucifixion was a sort of torture, and His death on the cross a symbol of the...
Jim Manzi has written a provocative post on the moral distinction between battlefield killing and torturing unarmed...
…everything is scarier, more urgent. Like this swine flu epidemic. I’m really nervous about this, especially living...
Those who have read a lot of my stuff know that I am someone who has very...
Having successfully replicated the economic construct of our American System among the vast majority of the world’s...
The briefest description I can give of the point of view for my work as a blogger...
Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy WE stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was...
John Judis would like to have more discussion about the possibility of ditching the CIA, or at...
“What you see in the relationship between torturer and tortured is the absolute darkness of totalitarianism. You...
Not sure if I’m breaking (bending?) League protocols, but I thought I bring a little of them...
Andrew, someone should give Julian Sanchez a job as a paid blogger. Because he is very good...
I want to follow up on this with an examination of Community vs. Rights in light of...
“And then, where is the use of torture? It is a slippery trial and uncertain (says Ulpian)...
A bevy of links on the subject. John Robb: Open-Source Counterinsurgency in Pakistan and P. + Open...
The Tudors is a bad show. I’m a sucker for historical drama, but after slogging through the...
….the Republican Party is renamed the “National Socialist Party.” Fair’s fair.
“Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will him about mine ears; and sometime voices, That if I then...
“I told you about these people. They only mate with their own kind.  It’s yuppie inbreeding. That’s...
