Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror »

Charles Fried, the Beneficial Professor Law at the Harvard Law School, has taught and written about legal philosophy and constitutional law for over forty years. He served as solicitor general of the United States in the Reagan administration and as a judge on the highest court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. His books include Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government, Right and Wrong, and (with his son, Gregory Fried) Because It Is Wrong.

Gregory Fried, is chair of the Philosophy Department at Suffolk University. His books include Heidegger’s Polemos.

Elevating the torture and privacy debate, this book brilliantly challenges the knee-jerk responses of those in media and government.