"Today's age of politicized and intolerant Christianism seems to me to be one of those moments when Christianity has e…"

"First silence. Then denial. Then support of the insupportable. Then vilification of the dissenters. The pattern is as…"

"Torture was necessary to maintain slavery. It was integral to slavery. You cannot have slavery without some torture o…"

"In thinking about the costs of this war, and thinking about renewing it, we have to reconsider what it has done to Am…"

"At home, the public has come to accept torture as a legitimate instrument of government, something that the Founding …"

"A constitutional republic dedicated before everything to the protection of liberty cannot legalize torture and remain…"

"It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal…"

"What al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein did was an extreme form of sadistic torture, the kind that psychopaths enjoy and inf…"

"Critics will no doubt say I am accusing the Bush administration of being Hitler. I'm not. There is no comparison betw…"

"Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terro…"