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.
This week Mark Tooley, Marc LiVecche, and Mark Melton discuss Providence’s latest content, including Eric Patterson’s article describing eight principles…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonSeptember 25, 2020
In the weekly Marksism series, Mark Tooley, Mark Melton, and Marc LiVecche discuss the latest content from the week. First,…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonSeptember 18, 2020
In this episode Marksism, editors Mark Tooley, Mark Melton, and Marc LiVecche discuss the September 11th terrorist attacks, retribution in…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonSeptember 11, 2020
Marking the end of the Second World War, Daniel Strand and Marc LiVecche reflect on the lessons of that great…
Marc LiVecche & Daniel StrandSeptember 4, 2020
In this episode of Marksism, Mark Tooley, Marc LiVecche, and Mark Melton discuss the week’s latest content, including book reviews…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonSeptember 4, 2020
In this episode, Mark Tooley, Marc LiVecche, and Mark Melton first discuss a couple articles about artificial intelligence and whether…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonAugust 28, 2020
In this episode of the weekly series Marksisism, editors Mark Tooley, Mark Melton, and Marc LiVecche discuss the week’s latest…
Mark Tooley & Mark Melton & Marc LiVeccheAugust 21, 2020
In this episode of Providence’s weekly series Marksism, Mark Tooley, Mark Melton, and Marc LiVecche discuss the journal’s latest content,…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonAugust 14, 2020
Following on from episode one’s discussion of the bombing of Hiroshima, Daniel Strand and Marc LiVecche discuss reactions and counterarguments…
Marc LiVecche & Daniel StrandAugust 14, 2020
Mark Tooley, Marc LiVecche, and Mark Melton discuss recent Providence content, including LiVecche’s defense of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonAugust 7, 2020
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