“The dark art of interrogation”
Read an October 2003 Atlantic Monthly story about the thin line between interrogation and torture.
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“The moral debate about torture”
Read and listen to a May 1, 2009, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly program about the morality of torture.
“APA Rules on Interrogation Abuse”
Read a Aug. 20, 2007, Washington Post story on the American Psychological Association vote to prohibit psychologists from participating in several interrogation techniques that have been used against U.S. terrorism detainees because the methods are immoral and psychologically damaging.
“Catholic activists protest torture practice”
Read a May 1, 2009, National Catholic Reporter story about a rally of human rights activists in Washington, D.C., to support a criminal inquiry.
“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.
“‘Zero Dark Thirty’ tortures the truth about interrogations”
A Religion News Service piece analyzing the portrayal of torture in the 2012 movie “Zero Dark Thirty.”
“The Problem of Evil”
Listen to a 12-minute American Public Media audio segment on “The Problem of Evil” from Feb. 15, 2002.
“From Hitler to Mother Teresa: 6 Degrees of Empathy”
Read a June 13, 2011, New York Times review of British scholar Simon Baron-Cohen’s book, The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty. See also an excerpt of the book.
“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.