For four years, William Styron pushed his No. 2 pencil across the page, writing The Confessions of Nat Turner. He'd “unwittingly created one of the first politically incorrect texts of our time”... more »
For as long as human cultures have existed anywhere, we have buried our dead. What's changed is the place the dead occupy in our lives... more »
Very few of the Nuremberg defendants were mentally diseased. Psychiatry can offer diagnoses, but it reveals little about the problem of human evil ... more »