November 11, 2005

Torture as a Case Study: How to Corrupt Your Students

By ANDREW SABL

Last June I watched 40 students in my program graduate with master's degrees in public policy. They worked hard, and I'm proud of what they learned. But am I proud of what I taught them?

They will be doers, not just thinkers, working as political staffers, government officials, and managers of nonprofit organizations. I teach political ethics, a course that's optional and often small. Even so, my class this year included one student who will be joining the Foreign Service and another

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