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Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
Maybe someday
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97/100Author:
Samuel Moyn
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
September 7, 2021
A history of how an international effort to outlaw war gave way to an effort to regulate it, with an emphasis on the role played by the United States.
What The Reviewers Say
... smart and provocative.
... enlightening and provocative.
... a continuation of Moyn’s decade-long critique of human rights and the liberal ideology that undergirds them. But, unlike his earlier books, Humane expresses a more avowed anti-imperialism, looking specifically at the misplaced idealism used to justify American Empire to the nation’s elites.
Moyn’s argument goes beyond the expected humanitarian critique—the Tolstoyan concern that mannerly military action could promote further suffering.
