Democracy Now!
by Colman McCarthy. This is the quadrennial moment when I’m lectured to by friends and self-appointed champions of the American way that I am a lout because I refuse to vote in presidential elections. Not in this current one nor any in the past. Some of my lecturers dismiss me as an addled purist with
by Colman McCarthy. This is the quadrennial moment when I’m lectured to by friends and self-appointed champions of the American way that I am a lout because I refuse to vote in presidential elections. Not in this current one nor any in the past. Some of my lecturers dismiss me as an addled purist with
After The Smoke Clears: The Just War Tradition and Post-War Justice Mark J. Allman and Tobias L. Winright. Orbis Books (2010) If linguistic precision has any importance, it might be time to replace the phrase “Just War” with “Just Slaughter.” What else is war but the organized and systematic slaughter of combatants and civilians? War
