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 this week’s episode, the editors discuss Bishop Timothy W. Whitaker’s article about how the nations appear in the Bible,…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonFebruary 19, 2021
In this week’s episode, the editors discuss Mark Tooley’s conversation with Nigel Biggar, a Presbyterian’s look at nationalism, Mark Melton’s review of a book on the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and Reinhold Niebuhr’s call for Christians to feed and clothe the defeated Germans in 1946.
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonFebruary 12, 2021
Here we are a few weeks after the events of January 6, and I think a lot of people are reeling from that, and I’m trying to understand that. Christian nationalism has been a hot topic of the late.
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Daniel Strand & Jonathan LeemanFebruary 2, 2021
In this episode of Marksism, the editors discuss Tobias Cremer’s article about an emerging post-religious right in America and the US Capitol riot. They also cover Eric Patterson’s article about religious freedom in the Middle East ten years after the Arab Spring.
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonJanuary 30, 2021
In this week’s episode, the editors discuss Mark Haas’ article about polarization, and then cover the use of religion in…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonJanuary 22, 2021
In this episode of Marksism, the editors review recent articles Providence published about the riot at the US Capitol on…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonJanuary 15, 2021
In this episode of Marksism, the editors discuss the storming of the US Capitol and their articles on the topic….
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonJanuary 8, 2021
Evangelicals remain a key element in the Republican Party. There has been arguably a resurgence of the religious left among progressives and among Democrats so Christianity as a political force has not receded. If anything, it has amplified arguably.
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVeccheJanuary 2, 2021
In this episode, Mark Tooley and Marc LiVecche speak about recent content on Providence, including Tooley’s article about Christian nationalism, Debra Erickson’s piece on Christian realism and partisanship, and a 75-year-old op-ed about Christmas.
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVeccheDecember 24, 2020
In this week’s episode, the editors discuss Alan Dowd’s article about what Trump’s foreign policy got right, a debate at Cambridge University over whether students and professors should respect or tolerate speech they dislike, and an interview with Tower of Skulls author Richard Frank.
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonDecember 18, 2020