Civics Resources Nicholas Kreuder | 13 Sep 2023 Should the U.S. Continue Aid to Ukraine? Defining the purpose of aid is the first step to debating a limit.
Civics Resources Benjamin Rossi | 6 Sep 2023 The Case For and Against Nuclear Disarmament Which strategy produces a safer world?
Is It Better to Intervene in Niger or Not? How should we weigh the potential consequences of our decision? 14 Aug 2023 | Matthew S.W. Silk
How I Learned to Worry About the Bombs: Cluster Munitions in Ukraine On what grounds could the use be justified? 13 Jul 2023 | Nicholas Kreuder
Putin and the Friend-Enemy Distinction Might Carl Schmitt be the key to deciphering Russia's politics? 15 May 2023 | Richard Gibson
Real Life Terminators: The Inevitable Rise of Autonomous Weapons Should we entrust robot soldiers with the freedom to search-and-destroy? 11 Aug 2022 | D'Arcy Blaxell
The Philosophical Underpinning of “War Crimes” Statutes At what point do acts of aggression violate the norms of permissible wartime conduct? 12 Apr 2022 | Nicholas Kreuder
Reflections on Communal Annihilation or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb How might the prospect of nuclear war change our bearing in regard to that final hour? 1 Apr 2022 | Daniel Story
Nuclear War and Scope Neglect Cognitive biases make it easy to lose sight of our goal in risk assessment. 31 Mar 2022 | Giles Howdle
Can Assassination Ever Be the Right Thing to Do? Why should military action aimed at our enemies' top brass be a stratagem that remains off the table? 18 Mar 2022 | Evan Arnet
The Nuclear Dice How should we evaluate alternative strategies of engagement when the levels of uncertainty and risk remain so high? 14 Mar 2022 | Dustin Crummett
Hypocrisy and Credibility in U.S. Foreign Policy A history of intervention in pro-Soviet regimes in the West undermines the US's claim to the moral high ground. 2 Mar 2022 | Benjamin Rossi
Ukraine, Digital Sanctions, and Double Effect: A Response Should Big Tech intervene even if their actions threaten foreseeable harm to innocent bystanders? 1 Mar 2022 | T. Parker Haratine
Russia, Ukraine, and Digital Sanctions Does Big Tech have a responsibility to get involved? 28 Feb 2022 | Kenneth Boyd
Afghanistan: The Graveyard of Liberal Interventionism? It is either hubris or naivete that leads us to think that we can fight others' battles for them. 24 Aug 2021 | Giles Howdle
What the Moral Tragedy in Afghanistan Teaches How did we get here? Who is to blame? What could we have done differently? Are there any useful takeaways from the mess we find ourselves in? 23 Aug 2021 | Matthew S.W. Silk
Our Moral Obligations to the Afghans There may never be a right time to withdraw, but that doesn't mean we can walk away clean. 16 Apr 2021 | Benjamin Rossi
Malum in Se: The Use of Tear Gas by Police If tear gas is a substance that is "evil in itself" (malum in se), why can police use tear gas on protesters? Just war theory provides criticism. 5 Jun 2020 | Evan Butts
Military Operations and Questions of Collective Responsibility Establishing collective culpability is much more difficult than determining individual responsibility. What do different strategies offer and what part does language play? 8 Jan 2020 | A.G. Holdier
WWIII?: Desensitization, Alarmism, and Anxiety Does wartime humor indicate a numbness to the violence of war or does it simply betray rising anxieties about an uncertain future? 7 Jan 2020 | Matthew S.W. Silk
Jus ad Bellum: US, Iran, and Soleimani The assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani fits uncomfortably in the Just War tradition and this complicates the US's claim to self-defense. 6 Jan 2020 | Meredith McFadden
Pope Francis, Edward Gallagher, and Just War Theory From the case of Edward Gallagher to recent statements by the Pope, current events encourage reflection on what it means to wage war ethically. 3 Dec 2019 | Evan Butts
