Darius Rejali

Recent Media

"Waterboarding Works, US Senate Candidate (and former CIA officer) Todd Wilcox says" Politifact Florida (Joshua GIllin) (May 24, 2016).
"TORTURE" Australian Broadcasting interview (May 21, 2016).
"Evidence backs Hillary Clinton claim that torture is counterproductive for counterterrorism" Politifact (C. Eugene Emery Jr.) (March 30, 2016).
"Unreal: Trump Says Geneva Conventions are a 'Problem'" (Ben Armbruster) (March 30, 2016).
Oliver Laughland, James Lartey, Ciara McCarthy, "Bolts from the Blue" Guardian (November 5, 2015).
"The Reluctant Philosopher: Prof. Darius Rejali Take to the Airwaves." REED Magazine (April 29, 2015).
When Democracies Torture - Philosophy Talk (April 22, 2015).
The full conversation is available through SoundCloud and through the philosophy talk homepage.
"Darius Rejali: Reed College Professor and Torture Expert Talks about the Trauma to Interrogators." (December 26, 2014).
Jane Mayer "Torture and the Truth" (December 22, 2014).
"No, Americans aren't 'fine with torture.'" (December 12, 2014).
"The Bizarre Failed Weapons that Led to the Stun Gun," Gizmodo (May 12, 2014).
"Who Made That Stun Gun?" New York Times Magazine (May 9, 2014).
"La Medusa," Capitalism Nature Socialism (April 14, 2014).
"One," A Poem by Darius Rejali, Street Roots (August 16, 2013).
Pooyah Interview (Summer 2012): English, Farsi.
One Plus One Interview, with Philip Williams, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (March 16, 2012).
Appearance on Another Life, a Play by Karen Malpede and Theater Three Collaborative (March 2012).
The Dirty Secret about “Clean” Torture, Amnesty International Human Rights Now Blog (June 14, 2011).
Darius Rejali on Violence, Five Books Interview (July 2010).
Paul Gronke, Darius Rejali, Dustin Drenguis, James Hicks, Peter Miller and Bryan Nakayama, “US Public Opinion and Torture, 2001-2009,” PS: Political Science & Politics, Volume 43, Issue 03, July 2010, pp 437-444.
Commentary on this work by scholars and blog writers:
http://www.themonkeycage.org/2010/07/a_false_consensus_about_public.html
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/07/greenwald-bait.html
http://openleft.com/diary/19395/the-tortured-logic-of-embracing-torture
http://onespot.wsj.com/politics/2010/07/10/a/659184370-the-tortured-logic-of-embracing/
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010/07/a_false_consens.html
“Las lapidanciones resurgén in Iran,” El Pais (July 18, 2010) (in Spanish)
"Too Ready to Use Torture," Chicago Tribune (June 13, 2010) Section 1, 25.
Interview with BBC Farsi (in Farsi) (March 2010).
"Waterboarding is a Dutch Invention," Interview with Folkert Jensma, Science Section, NRC Handelsbad (September 5, 2009).
Speaking of Faith: The Long Shadow of Torture (June 11, 2009).
Live radio interview with Richard Glover, ABC Local Radio's "Drive with Richard Glover" (June 1, 2009). Website.
Radio interview with Mark Colvin, host of ABC Radio's PM (Aired on local radio and Radio National). Aired 27 May, 2009. Transcript.
"Accepting Torture?" The Huffington Post (May 1, 2009).
On Torture in the London Cage:
Daily Dish, Churchill vs. Cheney, Ctd. (May 1, 2009)
Daily Dish, Was the London Cage Policy (May 1, 2009)
Anne Marie Cusac "Torture American Style," The Huffington Post (April 28, 2009).
All Things Considered, "Psychologists Dispute Claim in Interrogation Memos" (April 22, 2009).
Matt Apuzzo, "Unresolved Debate in DOJ memos: Does torture work?" (April 21, 2009).
Scott Shane, "Torture Versus War," New York Times (April 18, 2009).
"Ice Water and SweatboxesThe long and sadistic history behind the CIA's torture techniques," Darius Rejali, Slate Magazine (March 17, 2009).
What Killed Sergeant Gray (on post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans who tortured)
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/vets/f1.html
http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/vets/
Jane Mayer and Bill Moyers Interview (July 25, 2008).
Open and Shut Cases: Dick Cheney's unique gift for making hard questions easy and vice versa, Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine (Monday, Dec. 22, 2008).
Reed’s Rejali wins 2007 Human Rights Book Award for Torture and Democracy
Interview with David Frost on Frost over the World, AL Jazeera (after Sidney Blumenthal interview) (May 30, 2008).
Authorizing torture with the very best of intentions. Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine (June 19, 2008).
"Torture and Democracy, Part II: Scholar Darius Rejali Details the History and Scope of Modern Torture," Democracy Now (April 15, 2008).
"Torture and Democracy: Scholar Darius Rejali Details the History and Scope of Modern Torture," Democracy Now (March 12, 2008).
Speaker, Intelligence Squared (March 11, 2008).
"On Language: Waterboarding," William Safire, The New York Times (March 9, 2008).
"The Torturous Logic of The New York Times," Marc Cooper, The Huffington Post (March 9, 2008).
Interview with Scott Horton, No Comment, Harper's Magazine, (February 13, 2008).
"A Painful History: Why have modern democracies been such important innovators of torture?" The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 25, 2008).
"Torture, American style. The surprising force behind torture: democracies," The Boston Globe (December 16, 2007).
"5 Myths About Torture and Truth," Washington Post (December 16, 2007).
"The Tortured Lives of Interrogators," Laura Blumenfeld, Washington Post (June 4, 2007).
"Whatever It Takes: The politics of the man behind '24'," Jane Mayer, The New Yorker (February 19, 2007).

Magazine Articles

Martha Gies, “The Ustaad: the Professional Life and Political Times of Prof. Rejali,” Reed Magazine (June 2011).
"Ice Water and SweatboxesThe long and sadistic history behind the CIA's torture techniques," Darius Rejali, Slate Magazine (March 17, 2009).
"A Painful History: Why have modern democracies been such important innovators of torture?" The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 25, 2008).
"Torture, American style. The surprising force behind torture: democracies," The Boston Globe (December 16, 2007).
"From the Inside Looking In: Sickness, War and Remembrance in Iran," Reed Magazine (Winter 2007).
"Containing Torture: How torture begets even more torture." (Slate Magazine, October 27, 2006).
"Torture's Dark Allure," "Does Torture Work?" and "On Human Bondage," Salon.com (June 18, 2004 and June 21, 2004).
"The Real Shame of Abu Ghraib," Viewpoint, Time.com (May 20, 2004).
"What’s My Major?: Some Advice to Generation Xers," The Future of Oregon: A Public Affairs Quarterly (April 1997).

Editorials

The Dirty Secret about “Clean” Torture, Amnesty International Human Rights Now Blog (June 14, 2011).
"Too Ready to Use Torture," Chicago Tribune (June 13, 2010) Section 1, 25.
"No, we don't support torture" OregonLive.com (May 9, 2009)
"Accepting Torture?" The Huffington Post (May 1, 2009).
To The Next U.S. President: 100 Words for 100 Days (WorldChanging Team, October 29, 2008).
"5 Myths About Torture and Truth," Washington Post (December 16, 2007).
"Containing Torture: How torture begets even more torture." (Slate Magazine, October 27, 2006).
"The Lesson of July 21" (The Huffington Post, July 20, 2006).
"Nation Doesn't Need an AG who Cleared Path for Torture," (Seattle Times, December 17, 2004).
"The Real Shame of Abu Ghraib" (Viewpoint, Time.com - May 20, 2004).
"A Long-Standing Trick of the Torturer's Art" (Seattle Times, May 14, 2004).
"Use of Torture in Iraq Damages US Ability to Gather Intelligence" (The Oregonian, May 6, 2004).
"Violence You Can't See" (Collegenews.org, December 18, 2003) .
"Torturing Can't Be Defended" (The Oregonian, April 16, 2002).
"Tortured Truth" (The Miami Herald, February 10, 2002).
Interviews and remarks in Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, Christian Science Monitor, Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm), De Groene Amsterdamer (Amsterdam), La Presse (Montreal) and Le Devoir (Montreal).”

Interviews

Pooyah Interview (Summer 2012): English, Farsi.
One Plus One Interview, with Philip Williams, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (March 16, 2012).
Darius Rejali on Violence, Five Books Interview (July 2010).
Lund University Interview (May 2010): Part One; Part Two.
Interview with BBC Farsi (in Farsi) (March 2010).
"Waterboarding is a Dutch Invention," Interview with Folkert Jensma, Science Section, NRC Handelsbad (September 5, 2009).
Live radio interview with Richard Glover, ABC Local Radio's "Drive with Richard Glover" (June 1, 2009). Website.
Radio interview with Mark Colvin, host of ABC Radio's PM (Aired on local radio and Radio National). Aired 27 May, 2009. Transcript.
Profiles Interview (interviewed in October). WFIU, Bloomington Indiana Public Radio (December 21, 2008).
Nonfiction.fr le portaile des livres et des id�es: Trois questions � Darius Rejali, auteur de Torture et D�mocratie (December 19, 2008) (in French)
Liberation (December 16, 2008) (in French)
L'essor inqui�tant du �supplice propre� en d�mocratie
Interview with David Frost on Frost over the World, AL Jazeera (after Sidney Blumenthal interview) (May 30, 2008).
Interview with Scott Horton, No Comment, Harper's Magazine, (February 13, 2008).
"Tortura 'limpia' y al desnudo," Interview on Público.es, (February 3, 2008) (in Spanish).
History News Network, "Torture in Democratic Societies" with Robin Lindley (July 7, 2008).
"A tortura destr�i a intelig�ncia," Interview with Epoca (Brazil) (July 18, 2008) (in Portuguese).
Liberation, "L'essor inqui�tant du �supplice propre� en d�mocratie" (December 16, 2008) (in French).
Nonfiction.fr le portaile des livres et des id�es, "Trois questions � Darius Rejali, auteur de Torture et D�mocratie" (Vendredi 19 d�cembre 2008) (in French).
Activate, "Democracy Incubates the Torture Debate" (March 13, 2008).
Real Change interview
"Hot Seat" Interview in Willamette Week (December 7, 2007).

Television and Radio Appearances

"TORTURE" Australian Broadcasting interview (May 21, 2016).
"The Reluctant Philosopher: Prof. Darius Rejali Take to the Airwaves." REED Magazine (April 29, 2015).
When Democracies Torture - Philosophy Talk (April 22, 2015).
The full conversation is available through SoundCloud and through the philosophy talk homepage.
One Plus One Interview, with Philip Williams, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (March 16, 2012).
Appearance on Another Life, a Play by Karen Malpede and Theater Three Collaborative (March 2012).
Interview with BBC Farsi (in Farsi) (March 2010).
Speaking of Faith: The Long Shadow of Torture (June 11 2009)
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/2009/torture/
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/2009/torture/transcript.shtml
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977709382
Australian Interviews:
- Radio interview with SBS Radio's "World View". Aired on 2 June, 2009.
- Radio interview with Mark Colvin, host of ABC Radio's PM (Aired on local radio and Radio National). Aired 27 May, 2009. Transcript.
- Live radio interview with James O'Loghlin, ABC Local Radio's "Sundays with James O'Loghlin � 31 May, 2009. Website�
- Live radio interview with Richard Glover, ABC Local Radio's "Drive with Richard Glover" � 1 June, 2009. Website.
- Live radio interview with ABC Radio National's Late Night Live host Phillip Adams � 1 June, 2009. Podcast.
- Live television interview with ABC TV News Breakfast (ABC 2) � 2 June, 2009. Website.
- Radio interview with 2SER-FM's "The Wire" current affairs program � 2 June, 2009. Podcast.
- Radio interview with 2SER-FM's "Radio Atticus".
Thom Hartman Show (April 28, 2009).
Jefferson Public Radio, "Torture Memos" (April 28, 2009).
"Reality Check" (in English) ORF Austrian Broadcasting Corporation
http://fm4v2.orf.at/connected/222631/main
http://fm4v2.orf.at/station/222634/main
All Things Considered, "Psychologists Dispute Claim in Interrogation Memos" (April 22, 2009).
"Marking the 30th Anniversary," The Takeaway. WNYC/WGBH (February 2, 2009).
Profiles Interview (interviewed in October). WFIU, Bloomington Indiana Public Radio (December 21, 2008).
The Exchange. Jefferson Public Radio (November 7, 2008).
BBC Radio 4, Thinking Allowed (May 21, 2008).
Law and Disorder (March 17, 2008).
Law and Disorder (May 5, 2008).
Intelligence Squared Debate, "Tough Interrogation of Terror Suspects is Necessary," (March 11, 2008):
Radio Link to NPR
Youtube video of debate
Guest, "Former Interrogator Tells Tales of Abu Ghraib," Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio (June 11, 2007).
"Of Tongues and Ticking Time bombs," Electric Politics podcast.
"Torture and Democracy, Part II: Scholar Darius Rejali Details the History and Scope of Modern Torture," Democracy Now (April 15, 2008).
"Torture and Democracy: Scholar Darius Rejali Details the History and Scope of Modern Torture," Democracy Now (March 12, 2008).
Interview on waterboarding veto, KUOW Seattle (March 11, 2008). Interview starts in the last 12 minutes or so.
Interview, “The Ethics of Torture,” Engage Podcasts, Oregon State University (October 4, 2006).
“History of an Interrogation Technique: Water Boarding,” ABC News, (November 29, 2005) .
Guest, “Torture Still Again,” Radio Open Source, Boston Public Radio (November 4, 2005).
Guest, “Abu Ghraib Take Two,” Radio Open Source, Boston Public Radio (July 27, 2005).
Guest, “Torture and Democracy,” Odyssey, Chicago Public Radio (June 30, 2005).
Guest, “Torture,” Radio Open Source, Boston Public Radio (June 23, 2005).
Guest, In the Money, CNN (June 2004) .
Guest, Reality Check, Austrian National Public Radio (June 2004).
Guest, The News Hour with Aaron Brown, CNN (May 2004) .
Guest, SBS Radio (Australia) in Persian (2003).
Special Consultant, Documentary on the History of Punishment and Torture, COURT TV (USA) and Channel 5 (UK), 2001.
Interviews in Local Portland Media: KPTV-UPN (1999, 1998); KGWTV-NBC (2004), KPAM-AM (2006); KXL-FM (2004); KBOO FM (2002, 1999, 1997).

Darius Rejali

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Reed College

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