Okay, so what have I been reading?

Stuff on the ethics of war, mostly. I recently finished Robert L. Holmes’ On War and Morality.

Also, various articles:

• “War, Peace, & the State” by Murray Rothbard
• “Killing, Letting Die and the Alleged Necessity of Military Intervention” and “Violence and Hypocrisy” by Laurie Calhoun
• “Strategies of Annihilation: Total War in US History” by Joseph Stromberg

Reading Holmes and Calhoun in particular has convinced me that the “principle of double effect” is more problematic than I had thought. I am no longer sure it can be used to justify the unintentional but forseeable killing of civilians during war.

More on this later, probably.