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.
There may be no prudent responses against North Korea’s regime for Otto Warmbier’s murder. But such a concession to realism over justice does not invalidate the morality of the retributive instinct. It remains. And it remains deeply Christian.
Marc LiVeccheJune 22, 2017
Two hundred and forty years ago this week, a Frenchman landed on American soil to join the American fight. He became one of our greatest patriots.
Marc LiVeccheJune 16, 2017
50 years ago, Israel reunited Jerusalem and laid the groundwork for the possibility of peace
Marc LiVeccheJune 7, 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May insists, “United we will take on and defeat our enemies.”
Marc LiVeccheJune 5, 2017
55 years ago, the chief architect of the holocaust was executed in Israel.
Marc LiVeccheMay 31, 2017
A review of Michael Golembesky’s Dagger 22
Marc LiVeccheMay 15, 2017
75 years ago, Executive Order 9066, forcibly relocating Japanese Americans, went into full effect. Reinhold Niebuhr didn’t think it should have.
Marc LiVeccheMay 3, 2017
Why is the just war tradition seemingly so easily abused?
Marc LiVeccheApril 25, 2017
Good Friday has something to say about individual and national service
Marc LiVeccheApril 14, 2017
Sovereignty is about more than simply running a country
Marc LiVeccheApril 12, 2017