The Nation‘s December 26 examination of the US torture complex includes Tara McKelvey’s expose of the role of academics in justifying US government’s torture policy.
The rundown of pro-torture profs includes: Alan Dershowitz (Harvard), Richard Parker (Harvard), Philip Heymann (Harvard), Juliette Kayyem (Harvard), John Yoo (UC Berkeley), Richard Posner (Chicago), Eric Posner (Chicago), Arthur Caplan (Pennsylvania), Michael Levin (CUNY), Fritz Allhoff (Western Michigan), Mirko Bagaric (Deakin U, Australia), and Kenneth Anderson (American U).