Torture Debate Is Missing This Fact: We Did This Before

Just over one hundred years ago, in 1902, Americans participated in a brief, intense and mostly forgotten debate on the practice of torture in a context of imperial warfare and counterinsurgency. The setting was the U. S. invasion of the Philippines, a war of conquest waged against the forces of the Philippine Republic begun in … Continue reading “Torture Debate Is Missing This Fact: We Did This Before”