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Of Men and Nations: Obama?s Wisdom in Releasing the Torture Memos

By Robert Justin Lipkin

A relatively simple moral imperative requires the righteous to criticize their own conduct and when found wanting to admit and atone for the wrongdoing. Indeed, the capacity for moral correction and growth may just be the defining feature of being a person.  It’s certainly a necessary condition for the possibility of ethics. This virtue is [...]

Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on April 24, 2009 (boomark / email).