Humane

In Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, historian Samuel Moyn explores the unsettling transformation of warfare in the post-9/11 era, positing that efforts to make war more ethical may have inadvertently reinforced military operations globally. He examines a century and a half of debates surrounding the ethics of force, highlighting how the shift from opposing war to opposing war crimes has shaped American military practices. Through this lens, Moyn critiques the narrative of humanitarian warfare, suggesting that as conflicts become more humane, they paradoxically become more perpetual.