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.
In the fourth episode of the weekly series of Marksism, editors Mark Tooley, Mark Melton, and Marc LiVecche begin by…
Mark Tooley & Mark Melton & Marc LiVeccheJune 12, 2020
Christian realism argues that the right to political sovereignty rests not on simply wielding power in a geographically defined area,…
Marc LiVecche & Derryck GreenJune 11, 2020
Providence editors Mark Tooley, Mark Melton, and Marc LiVecche discuss the week’s latest events, including the protests and riots in the wake of George Floyd’s death, and Providence’s recent articles.
Mark Tooley & Mark Melton & Marc LiVeccheJune 5, 2020
Through a Christian realist lens, the police officer’s mission closely corresponds to the just war tradition’s aim of promoting order, justice, and peace. Marc LiVecche reviews how the police failed in the killing of George Floyd.
Marc LiVeccheJune 2, 2020
In the second episode of the weekly series of Marksism, Mark Tooley (editor) and Marc LiVecche (executive editor) discuss the…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVeccheMay 29, 2020
Memorial Day is the right time to reflect on the costs of war and why they are sometimes worth paying.
Marc LiVeccheMay 25, 2020
In the first episode of what will be a weekly series, the three Providence editors—Mark Tooley (editor), Mark Melton (managing…
Mark Tooley & Mark Melton & Marc LiVeccheMay 22, 2020
Writing about his experience in the Battle of Okinawa, US Marine Eugene Sledge reported that “men struggled and fought and…
Marc LiVecche & Saul DavidMay 21, 2020
On this V-E Day, Marc LiVecche connected with Col. Timothy Mallard, Command Chaplain for U.S. Army Europe, to discuss the…
Marc LiVecche & Timothy MallardMay 8, 2020
To what degree are combatants in war morally liable to be killed, and to what degree are their adversaries morally permitted—or obligated—to kill them? To discuss this, Marc LiVecche sat down recently with Major Joseph Chapa.
Joseph O. Chapa & Marc LiVeccheMay 5, 2020
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