In “The Guilty Vicarage,” an essay on detective fiction, W.H. Auden argues that the most successful detective novels take ...

Without doubt, wrote Martin Luther, “;confession of sins is necessary, and in accordance with the divine commandments” But Luther was dead set against the Roman Catholic obligation to confess before ...

Imagine a justice system that recognises torture is wrong—but only sometimes. Picture a courtroom where a confession extracted from a terrified suspect can still be used for a conviction, depending on ...