Joseph BottumDr. Joseph Bottum is a widely published essayist and poet, and religious scholar living in the Black Hills of South Dakota. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and many other newspapers, magazines, and journals, while his books include The Pius War and his latest poetry collection, The Second Spring. The former literary editor of the Weekly Standard and former editor in chief of First Things, Dr. Bottum holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston College. He has been a monthly columnist for Crisis magazine, hosted for three years the nationally syndicated radio show "Book Talk," and done commentary for television networks from EWTN to the BBC, including NBC's "Meet the Press" and the PBS evening news.
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Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani physician who helped the U.S. locate Osama bin Laden, has been in jail in Pakistan since he was arrested days after the raid on bin Laden's compound in 2011. In 2013, he was granted a retrial, with a new charge that appears politically motivated: charged with murder in regard to the death, eight years earlier, of a patient he had treated. Afridi has gone on a hunger strike protest his unspeakable prison conditions -- including torture. His former lawyer, Samiullah Khan Afridi, was murdered by the Taliban in March 2015.
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