Tag: The Atlantic
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It’s a paradox: Dominic Tierney’s political platitudes
One can almost picture Tierney offering platitudes to undergraduates at Swarthmore as he scribbles dates and quotes on the whiteboard, asking “Can America return to victory?” But by whose measure, and for what cause, should the United States return to victory?
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The pain we will not see
War, especially today, is murky enough. But how we come to see it —to experience it— ought to be informed by actual events, made public and debated.
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Our Lesser Evil
Reviled by some for supporting the Iraq War, Michael Ignatieff (who now teaches at the University of Toronto) wrote an often overlooked book during the mid-oughts, called The Lesser Evil. Tackling an ambitious question –how can a state address the threat of terrorism– the book outlines the weakness of democratic institutions in the face of…
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Resisting Resistance: Why Syria isn’t Rwanda…. Or Iraq.
Either way, the distinction in approach should prod a reader towards the ultimate question: On what grounds should the international community (or even The United States) risk the lives of their own for others?
Adam McCauley 