by zen | Dec 21, 2012 | Monitor
Hat tip for a strong recommendation from Adam Elkus: Josh Foust has a very sensible piece up about the seemingly endless furor about “killer drones” (we never called our warplanes “Killer F-16′s” or guided weapons “killer cruise...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 16, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — where to begin? let’s start with peace ] . Photo credit: Ciro Fusco, EPA. Pope Benedict XVI has been in the Lebanon these last three days, and after an extremely turbulent week in which many discordant religious and / or...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 12, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — surprising infrequency of capital punishment, though mandated in Sharia and Torah ] . I’m always struck by formal parallelisms, particularly in matters religious — so when I came across this fascinating reference to the...
by Ashley Boyle | Jul 13, 2012 | Monitor
One of the touchstones in the current US drones dialogue is the the legality of lethal drone strikes. Despite claiming the strikes are legally permissible, Administration officials have not yet cited any legal statute in justifying the use of drones in...
