Against torture

Michigan law professor Joseph Vining, a Catholic, has written against the degraded lawyering in the torture memo.  Unfortunately for present purposes, his characteristically insightful, elegant, and elevating essay is part of the volume After Authority, which I edited and is now under consideration for publication.  Other contributors to the volume, while I'm at it, include (among others) Avery Cardinal Dulles, Russell Hittinger, Steve Smith, Michael J. White, Tom Kohler, Glenn Tinder, and J. Budziszewski.  We can hope that the outside readers will hurry.