Review of Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021).  In this extraordinary book, Yale University historian Samuel Moyn examines how the U.S. military’s effort to make war more “humane” by limiting civilian casualties has served to make American wars seemingly endless.  The American use of …

What Should the Biden Administration’s Iran Strategy Be?

President-elect Biden has signaled that he wants the U.S. to rejoin the 2015 Iranian nuclear accord which the Trump Administration withdrew from in 2018.  But while this goal is laudable, continuing differences between Iran on the one hand and the U.S. and some of its Middle Eastern allies on the other may not only limit …