Comparing Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay to the torture rooms of the Spanish Inquisition is almost always a gesture of condemnation. The implication is not subtle: the enhanced interrogation (to adopt ...

Today’s World Public Opinion survey on torture is quite fun. Respondents were put into three categories: “No torture at all”; “Limited use of torture to save innocent lives”; and “Torture should ...

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