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...revulsion topic itself or out of a fear that doing so opens the conceptual possibility of its being legitimated, torture is a fact of life. Despite absolute prohibitions in international law on state use of torture, "torture is practiced on a regular basis in more countries than ever." (2) It is in this present shroud of secretive decisions to violate some of our most fundamental human rights that Sanford Levinson has sought to play a part in the rightfully public debate and in the resolution of the difficult questions that the practice of torture raises. In his Torture: A Collection, Levinson has assembled contributions from some of the most influential thinkers dealing with torture. The resulting panoply is engaging if only for its diversity of approaches--from the strictly historical to the strictly legal, from the abstractly philosophical to the brutally pragmatic. Believing that "[i]t is vitally important that we discuss what is being done in our name," (3) Levinson has attempted to bring essays that engage in the "increasingly important debate over the possibility that torture, at least in some carefully specified circumstances, might be a 'lesser evil' than some other 'greater evil' that menaces society." (4)

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