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Do we really hate torture?

Jerry S. Piven teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of "Death and Delusion: A Freudian Analysis of Mortal Terror."

Last Tuesday President Barack Obama endorsed an independent commission to investigate the Bush administration's use of torture. By Thursday his press secretary was saying he was against the idea. Just as the nation seemed...

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