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Samuel Moyn

Samuel Moyn is the Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University. His latest book is Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War.

The Ethical and Political Stakes of Humanizing War

Since political science has shown that the best way to promote human rights is not to have wars, one might...

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