Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.

Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on.