59 min

Bad News About Humane Warfare The Political Orphanage

    • Politics

Civilization has made warfare more indirect, streamlined, technological, and distant.
What if making warfare nicer makes us less hesitant to begin conflicts, and slower to stop them?
Samuel Moyn is the author of “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War.”

Civilization has made warfare more indirect, streamlined, technological, and distant.
What if making warfare nicer makes us less hesitant to begin conflicts, and slower to stop them?
Samuel Moyn is the author of “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War.”

59 min