What does the word “terror” really mean today?
Let me begin this post by doing what I specifically instruct my students not to do at the...
Read More
Tag: torture
On the Morality of Force Feeding Hunger Strikers
Currently there are about 100 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay Detention on hunger strike (89 of whom have been determined to be innocent of accusations but not released and some of whom have been on hunger strike for more than 106...
Read MoreDarkness in the Mirror: The Challenge of Zero Dark Thirty
One of my first blog posts was about the death of Osama Bin Laden. In Relief or Rejoice? Reflections on the Death of Osama Bin Laden, in which I concluded As Christians, it is appropriate to feel a strong sense of relief but...
Read MoreAre We All Michael Vick? Our Addiction to Animal Cruelty
Update June 2013: For a longer and revised version of this post, go to: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236008418_Are_We_Addicted_to_the_Suffering_of_Animals_Animal_Cruelty_and_the_Catholic_Moral_Tradition?ev=prf_pub or...
Read MoreThe Use of Torture
In his May 6th Wall Street Journal essay, Mr. Mukasy, the former Attorney General, claims that the much of the information that led to the killing of bin Laden was the result of “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Consider how...
Read MoreRenewed Debate about Torture and Useful Intelligence
As more details about the killing of Osama Bin Laden are released, one of the questions that has surfaced is whether the CIA relied on intelligence resulting from the torture of terrorist suspects held in detention facilities...
Read MoreTorture, Accusations and Humanity
Next weekend, Duke University will host its conference on torture, which has a very specific goal in mind: identifying that “torture is always wrong, torture does not make ‘us’ safer, and we need concrete...
Read More
Contributors
-
Alessandro Rovati
-
Andrew Kim
-
Barrett Turner
-
Beth Haile
-
Book Reviews
-
Catherine Moon
-
Charles Camosy
-
Christopher Vogt
-
Conor Kelly
-
Dana Dillon
-
David Cloutier
-
Emily Reimer-Barry
-
Holly Taylor Coolman
-
Jana Bennett
-
Jason King
-
Jennifer Beste
-
Jessica Wrobleski
-
John Berkman
-
Julie Rubio
-
Kari-Shane Davis Zimmerman
-
Kathryn Getek Soltis
-
Kelly Johnson
-
Lorraine Cuddeback-Gedeon
-
Luis Vera
-
Maria Morrow
-
Matthew Shadle
-
Meghan Clark
-
Miguel J Romero
-
New Wine New Wineskins
-
Nichole Flores
-
Patrick Clark
-
Ramon Luzarraga
-
Shawnee
-
superchief1
-
Thomas Bushlack
-
Tobias Winright
