Marc LiVecche is the McDonald Distinguished Scholar of Ethics, War, and Public Life at Providence. He is also a non-resident research fellow at the US Naval War College, in the College of Leadership and Ethics.
Marc completed doctoral studies, earning distinction, at the University of Chicago, where he worked under the supervision of the political theorist and public intellectual Jean Bethke Elshtain, until her death in August, 2013. His first book, The Good Kill: Just War & Moral Injury, was published in 2021 by Oxford University Press. Another project, Responsibility and Restraint: James Turner Johnson and the Just War Tradition, co-edited with Eric Patterson, was published by Stone Tower Press in the fall of 2020. Currently, he is finalizing Moral Horror: A Just War Defense of Hiroshima. Before all this academic stuff, Marc spent twelve years doing a variety of things in Central Europe—ranging from helping build sport and recreational leagues in post-communist communities, to working at a Christian study and research center, to leading seminars on history and ethics onsite at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp in Poland. This latter experience allowed him to continue his undergraduate study of the Shoah; a process which rendered him entirely ill-suited for pacifism.
Marc lives in Annapolis, Maryland with his wife and children–and a marmota monax whistlepigging under the shed. He can be followed, or stalked, on twitter @mlivecche. Additional publications can be found at his Amazon author page.
On June 30th, Providence and Tikvah partnered to convene a panel titled “What We Mean by ‘Judeo-Christian'”
Jonathan Silver & Marc LiVecche & Tamara Berens & Robert Nicholson & Anne LordJuly 4, 2025
Marc LiVecche & Robert Nicholson interview Yossi Kuperwasser on the emergence of a new regional security architecture that could bring about dramatic changes in the Near East.
Marc LiVecche & Robert Nicholson & Yossi KuperwasserJuly 3, 2025
If just war tradition requires particular kinds of warriors to fight just wars justly, we owe those particular kinds of warriors particularly kinds of things
Marc LiVeccheJuly 1, 2025
The Provcast team interview Rich Ghazal, Executive Director of In Defense of Christians, to discuss the question of Christian persecution as it relates to US foreign policy
Marc LiVecche & Mark Tooley & James Diddams & Robert Nicholson & Richard GhazalJune 25, 2025
Dr. Farhad Rezaei joins the Provcast to discuss the hard questions around the Israel-Iran conflict, including escalation, American involvement, and regime change
Farhad Rezaei & Marc LiVecche & Mark Tooley & James DiddamsJune 19, 2025
Israel’s strike against Iran proves that the Western love of life is not our weakness, but our strength. And a means toward responsible statecraft.
Marc LiVeccheJune 17, 2025
Editors Marc LiVecche, Mark Tooley and Robert Nicholson discuss Trump’s May Middle East trip and Ukraine’s recent drone attacks on Russia’s strategic bombers
Marc LiVecche & Robert Nicholson & Mark TooleyJune 12, 2025
The late Pope Francis failed to represent the best of his tradition’s teaching on war and martial responsibility. It is crucial that Leo XIV rectifies this.
Marc LiVeccheMay 19, 2025
Editors James Diddams, Marc LiVecche, Mark Tooley and Robert Nicholson discuss Pope Francis’ legacy, Trump’s recent trip to the Middle East, and the idea of “spheres of influence” in US grand strategy
James Diddams & Robert Nicholson & Marc LiVecche & Mark TooleyMay 16, 2025
The victory in Europe was made possible by character, resolve, and capability of the Allied warrior. Such virtues were needed then. They are needed still.
Marc LiVeccheMay 7, 2025