Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, (Macmillan, 2021) Can a “humane” war ever be fought? Or is such a question doomed to irrelevance by an innate contradiction in its terms? These are two of the driving questions in Samuel Moyn’s Humane, a polemic against the US-led march into anContinue reading “Does the “Good Fight” Exist? Ethics and the Future of War”
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Military Leaders Need the Liberal Arts
A liberal arts school; Officer Candidate School. These two places connote starkly different environments. One is associated with poetry readings and well-landscaped quads; the other evokes imagery of screaming drill instructors and lots of burpees. I had these experiences back-to-back, and while it was a startling juxtaposition, I now appreciate the synergy between these twoContinue reading “Military Leaders Need the Liberal Arts”
An Open Letter to Leadership
Dear Leadership, When all seems lost, the North Star that is Leadership shows the way. But where have you been? Graffiti turns our fountains red. Grievances and feuds mire our institutions, rendering them void and useless. Our campus elections are held over and over; by the end, they only serve to pit us against each other.Continue reading “An Open Letter to Leadership”
The Truth About Trudeau
Canada’s seemingly perfect Prime Minister faces the perennial skepticism of the nation’s conservative heartland.
Nicholas J. Romanow 