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December 2014

December 10, 2014

Trapped by Torture in Enmity with the World

Reading over more details about the Torture Report, I was reminded of a passage I'd...

December 09, 2014

Torture Report Details Wounds to Prisoners and Guards

The torture report (well, the unclassified executive summary) came out today, and the news is...

April 2014

April 13, 2014

A Lens on Killing and Forgiveness

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, and, over at The New York...

October 2013

October 01, 2013

Warfare “as obscene as cancer”

During the debate over the proper response to Syria's use of chemical weapons, I kept...

March 2013

March 20, 2013

Now we shoot through a screen, darkly

Via Mark Shea, Time has a lovely story about a German pilot who couldn't find...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

What Freedom from Moral Sensibilities Feels Like

Writing for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kevin Dutton underwent transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to...

August 2012

August 10, 2012

Offering Loving Resistance [Sequence Index]

In July 2012, Patheos sent me a copy of Logan Mehl-Laituri's memoir Reborn on the...

July 2012

July 19, 2012

Brave Enough to Kill

The Pentagon is considering awarding Distinguished Warfare Medals to drone pilots and Glen Greenwald is...

July 16, 2012

What Can You Do in the War?

Given the way our discussion of pacifism has meandered over to a debate about martyrdom,...

November 2010

November 16, 2010

Dirty Hands and Drone Strikes (Part 2)

This post is a LONG overdue response to Peter Somerville, who had some questions about...