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Empires Without Imperialism with Jeanne Morefield

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Is It Too Late to Learn Lessons?

Rite ignatiu is constantly talking about how hard it is to do bad things, that it's really painful to torture people because it makes you feel bad. And this is where his logic of liberalism as a fighting creed comes in, which is that liberals have to be willing to fight to save the world from illiberalism. So in this really tortured understanding of torture, rite ignatiu sets up a way in which the american state gets to both be liberal and anti-torture. Do you see how torked that is? But that is literally his argument,. m and it is not, i mean, it it's fascinating, because it comes across as a

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