Contents

1. The Sublime Grind of Ares

2. The War of Public and Private

3. Plato’s Prophecy and Kant’s Dream

4. Democratic Control and Professional Ethics

5. The Military Establishment

6. The Democratic Peace Myth: From Kant and Mill to Hiroshima and Baghdad

7. The Vanity of Temporal Things: Hegel and the Ethics of War

8. American Ambivalence: Militarism, Pacifism, and Pragmatism

9. Sliding Scales and the Mischief of War

10. Waterboarding, Torture, and Violence

11. Conscientious Refusal and the Liberal Tradition

12. Public Myths and Private Protest