re: #703 Cato the Elder

Here’s where Paglia (as much as I love reading her) falls flat on her academic ass. The Spanish Inquisition, compared to the legal systems it superseded, was a substantive advance in the history of jurisprudence.

Even a maverick liberal is wrong some of the time.

Indeed. Despite its terrifying reputation, many people asked to have ordinary criminal cases transferred to the Inquisition, because its judges were honest and did not base their rulings on social class.