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.
Nominated this week for six Oscars, Mel Gibson’s Desmond Doss biopic is an extraordinary testimony to extraordinary valor
Marc LiVeccheJanuary 25, 2017
75 years ago, fifteen well-educated men met in Berlin to talk murder
Marc LiVeccheJanuary 20, 2017
The perpetuation of our national institutions does not automatically–nor cheaply
Marc LiVeccheJanuary 20, 2017
75 years ago Reinhold Niebuhr rejoiced that America had finally resolved to do her duty
Marc LiVeccheJanuary 17, 2017
In the Christian view, the normative grounding from which the tradition of just war casuistry springs is the dominical command to love.
Marc LiVeccheJanuary 4, 2017
The visit to Pearl Harbor was, arguably, incomplete. Nevertheless, proves again the extraordinary.
Marc LiVeccheDecember 28, 2016
Believing few other gifts bring the “Merry” to Christmas like a good book, I asked some of our contributors, editors, and friends to recommend top reads.
Marc LiVeccheDecember 20, 2016
Two marks the 75th anniversary of the American entry into the Second World War & the beginning of a long-term Providence series reflecting on the war
Marc LiVeccheDecember 6, 2016
American strength, martial and moral, helps secure those essential goods for which we are grateful
Marc LiVeccheNovember 24, 2016
President-elect Trump will need help keeping America a great country, and more help keeping it good.
Marc LiVeccheNovember 9, 2016