Why We Should All Watch the Video of the Pilot's Fiery Death
Category: POLITICS
ISIS has no monopoly on cruelty or immolation. On the contrary, it has exploited for its own ends the shock value of something used for centuries to punish and terrify heretics and African-Americans, and lately used by desperate dissidents around the world upon themselves.
By James Heffernan, ContributorWriter, lecturer, Dartmouth Professor Emeritus, 2015-02-09