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For bringing to light critical but long-suppressed information, Pfc. Manning has been treated not as a whistleblower, but as a criminal and a spy.

Celebrity messiahs have come to redeem our country, not govern it (and don’t forget Marilyn and Elvis and Jackie O and Diana and Oprah and Brangelina and David Hasselhoff).

David Fincher's The Social Network; Yael Hersonki's A Film Unfinished; Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today

Human rights emerged not in the 1940s but the 1970s, and on the ruins of prior dreams.

Raul Hilberg, the first historian to document the banality of Nazi evil, nursed a lifelong grudge against the woman who borrowed from and popularized his work, Hannah Arendt.

Listen to an audiocast of remarks by "humanity's avenger," Luis Moreno-Ocampo, first prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

The man who reported on the Third Reich for CBS finds
some disturbing parallels between the Nixon administration and the Nazi government.

The government drops efforts to prosecute an officer who refused to fight in Iraq. But the Army continues its campaign against him.

It is conceivable that torture will go on spreading underground until it is strong enough to break out once more and redouble the embitterments of classes and of races. If so, mankind is lost.

The freeing of the "zeks" confronted Russia with living memories of the Terror.