J. Brian Charles

2 weeks ago | thepublicdiscourse.com | J. Brian Charles |Alan W. Dowd

Some Christian thinkers are seizing on the Trump administration’s efforts to force an end to the war in Ukraine as evidence of just war theory in action. For instance, noting that the just war tradition “requires us to determine just cause, but it also asks us to ponder the probability of success,” R. R.

1 month ago | realclearhistory.com | J. Brian Charles

Following Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria in March of 1938 (the Anschluss), on September 30 of that year a fragile peace was negotiated in Munich. Great Britain and France were willing to cede the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia – an area populated primarily by ethnic Germans bordering Germany – to Germany in exchange for Hitler’s promise of peace.

1 month ago | providencemag.com | J. Brian Charles |James Diddams

Following Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria in March of 1938 (the Anschluss), on September 30 of that year a fragile peace was negotiated in Munich. Great Britain and France were willing to cede the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia – an area populated primarily by ethnic Germans bordering Germany – to Germany in exchange for Hitler’s promise of peace.

2 months ago | providencemag.com | J. Brian Charles |James Diddams

I began reflecting seriously on the wider just war tradition in the context of doing criminal justice research in Washington, DC, before entering the university classroom full-time. Those days were for me formative, not least because (1) I discovered both Catholics and Protestants on Capitol Hill who took their faith seriously as they worked on policy matters and (2) I was forced to wrestle with the moral-philosophical foundations of justice.

Jan 23, 2025 | dailysignal.com | J. Brian Charles

Two days before Christmas 2024, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates. Five of these had murdered children; several had murdered multiple people and on separate occasions. Among those whose death sentence was commuted was Thomas Sanders, who on Sept. 8, 2010, in Louisiana kidnapped a 12-year-old girl, shot her, and slit her throat. This atrocity occurred only days after the girl was held captive and forced to witness Sanders’ murder her own mother.