12/05/2025
We have nothing to fear but ourselves.
"The Trump administration’s celebration of death brings us far from discussions of the law of armed conflict, the constitutionality of the strikes or even the Christian morality that would eventually push Augustine to formulate an early version of just-war theory. We’re in the Colosseum, one brought to us digitally so that we need not leave our homes to hear the cheers of the crowd, to watch the killing done for our entertainment and suffer the same harm that injured Alypius more than 1,600 years ago."
We need to question the strikes’ legality. But we also need to see how they fit into the Trump administration’s larger effort to change America.