by Henry Oliner | Dec 19, 2016 | Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
from an interview with Penn Jillete in the January Reason Magazine When I talk about the death penalty to people, there are a zillion pragmatic arguments to make that the death penalty is more expensive, that you could make mistakes with the death penalty. I try to...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
George Will writes in the Washington Post Facing up to what we did in interrogations, 1/11/13. Excerpts: “In the end, everybody breaks, bro — it’s biology,” says the CIA man in the movie, tactically but inaccurately, to the detainee undergoing “enhanced...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 27, 2009 | Terrorism
The debate over the enhanced interrogation techniques is almost Orwellian. It is torture? Of course it is. So is listening to any number of talking head simplistic moralizers from either end of the spectrum. It is torture and the difference is not one of...
