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.
From the fall, 2016 print edition: Christians long to be free in order to be obedient
Marc LiVeccheApril 4, 2017
A profoundly violent, sublimely beautiful film
Marc LiVeccheMarch 22, 2017
Patriotism, nationalism, and jingoism are individually important terms that do discreet, if sometimes overlapping work. I’m just not entirely sure how.
Marc LiVeccheFebruary 17, 2017
The greatest threat we face is our unwillingness to face them
Marc LiVeccheFebruary 9, 2017
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
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