The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such…

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