{"id":117,"date":"2007-11-11T00:36:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T05:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2007-11-11T00:40:06","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T05:40:06","slug":"the-renaissance-and-the-efficacy-of-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"The Renaissance and the efficacy of torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an historian specializing in the Renaissance, Anthony Grafton muses in <em>The New Republic<\/em> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/politics\/story.html?id=50b70935-6086-4b42-a7dc-36aa41c1647e&amp;p=3\">the efficacy of torture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Torture does not obtain truth. Applied with leading questions, it can make most ordinary people&#8211;as it would certainly make me&#8211;say anything their examiners want, if they can only work out what that is. Applied to the extraordinarily defiant, it may not work at all.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/\/?p=95\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to What Rights Should We Give Terrorists?\">What Rights Should We Give Terrorists?<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/\/?p=66\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to Worth Mulling Over\">Worth Mulling Over<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/\/?p=56\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to \u201cWe didn\u2019t start the fire\u2026\u201d\">\u201cWe didn\u2019t start the fire\u2026\u201d<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an historian specializing in the Renaissance, Anthony Grafton muses in The New Republic about the efficacy of torture: Torture does not obtain truth. Applied with leading questions, it can make most ordinary people&#8211;as it would certainly make me&#8211;say anything their examiners want, if they can only work out what that is. Applied to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morality","category-the-war-on-terrorism","tag-torture"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-1T","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}