The Renaissance and the efficacy of torture
By Joe Campbell
November 11th, 2007
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--as it would certainly make me--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.
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