The reality is that we [at The New Republic] don't hesitate to criticize the left, but we devote most of our attention to the right because the right wields far more power in American political life than the far left. How hard is this to understand?
There is a consistency and pattern to the reports, along with detailed testimony from many FBI agents, that make me believe that using faith to torture prisoners was far from rare.
Gabler is surely onto something in seeing the McCarthyite strain in American conservatism being more tenacious and transmittable, because human resentment is more common and politically potent than agreement about limited government.
