Green for Torture

The Spring issue of Green Bag includes a review of S. Levinson's Torture.  Torture is a collection of essays by various liberals with big names, lots of various serious folk, writing about the now-proverbial ticking bomb case.  The book has gotten generally positive and sympathetic reviews.  The Green Bag review, by Rosa Brooks, takes a somewhat different tack.  After noting the credentials of the contributors and praising the quality of the essays, Prof. Brooks gets to the real issues -- the fundamental mistakes in the hypothetical, its uninformative relation to reality, and the historical mindlessness of the project.  Not that she puts any of it in these terms.  Brooks is far more polite and respectful, and she lays out the arguments in more detail.