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“Stanford Prison Experiment”

Read about the Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971 and view a slide show of the experiment, which put ordinary Stanford University students in the position of guarding “inmates” – other students – while, unknown to the participants, their behavior was videotaped. Psychologist Philip Zimbardo, one of the experiment’s authors, says today that the sexual degradation of Iraqi […]

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“Torture follow-up”

Read a May 11, 2009, “Sightings” column by Martin Marty that follows up on his earlier essay on torture and churchgoers; it includes a response from David Neff of Christianity Today.

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“Is Religion Evil?”

Read a July 23, 2011, column by Ken Chitwood about evil in the aftermath of the July 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway, posted on the website of the Houston Chronicle.

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“Simply Evil”

Read “Simply Evil,” a Sept. 5, 2011, column by Christopher Hitchens at Slate.com written to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

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“Evildoers and Us”

Read a September 11, 2011 essay on the problem of evil, written by Alan Wolfe and published in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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