Samuel Moyn:

If the arc is down, those who miss Tony Judt cannot take solace in the thought that it will someday bend toward justice. The facts have not changed enough.

Mark Danner:

The process, which has never been described more intimately or more convincingly, resembles nothing so much as a postmodern globalized version of the Salem witch trials: zealous inquisitors, untroubled by doubt, applying a relentless violence to conjure up a fantasy world born of the collective terrors of their own imaginations.

When the suffering of the untried and unconvicted becomes nothing more than collateral damage, America has crossed a gulf.

Mark Ames:

As Otis Pike put it, in Watergate the American people were asked to believe that "their President had been a bad person. In this situation they are asked much more; they are asked to believe that their country has been evil. And nobody wants to believe that."

Belle Boggs:

If American citizens are to have any chance of speaking truth to power, they will need to have a better handle on the truth part.