Quoted: Humanity and Torture: Effective Interrogation or Brutality?As part of a three-part series on "Humanity and Torture," being sponsored by the Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School, this panel will address difficult questions in the context of recent controversies about use of torture in interrogations of Al Qaida prisoners and others engaged in or suspected of terrorism since 9/11. As torture appears to become routine in the world in which we live, is there a "torture gene"? If terror is the enemy, is torture the response? Is torture ever morally permissible? - The New School