Quote of the day
Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
Robert Jay Lifton

Born: May 16, 1926 (age 99)
Bio: Robert Jay Lifton is an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of war and political violence and for his theory of thought reform. He was an early proponent of the techniques of psychohistory.
Known for:
- The Nazi doctors (1986)
- Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (1968)
- Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir (2011)
- Hiroshima in America (1995)