God's Jury

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. But not everybody really knows what it is, either. The writer Cullen Murphy has written a book about the Catholic Church's 700-year persecution of its enemies, both real and imagined. And he says the "inquisitorial impulse" lives on - in America's massive surveillance and routine use of torture in the wake of 9/11, for example. Murphy joins Doug on Friday to remind us the Inquisition isn't something safely relegated to the past (Rebroadcast)

Books and music from today's RadioWest: 

• God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World by Cullen Murphy
• "Paranoid Android (Album Version)" by Brad Mehldau
• "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" by Radiohead
• "Videotape" by Radiohead