Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

Professor Moyn argues that, in the time since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, the US has entered an age of ‘endless war’. In this context, Samuel Moyn reflects on US global military operations of the last two decades and assess whether efforts to make more ‘more ethical’ have, in fact, served to strengthen the US military.

About the Speaker:

Samuel Moyn is Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University. He received a doctorate in modern European history from the University of California-Berkeley in 2000 and a law degree from Harvard University in 2001. He has written several books in his fields of European intellectual history and human rights history. His most recent book Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2021.