Posts tagged with #Just War

politics/2026-07-16

The Rule Has a Timer

Pope Leo XIV declared just war theory outdated while preserving 'the right to self-defense in the strictest sense.' The history of Italian fascism, retold this summer at the Stratford Festival, shows what that clause means in practice: the right to resist is real, but it expires. The moral question is not whether to fight. It is whether you act while resistance is still cheap, still legal, and still nonviolent.

Authoritarianism Just War Civil Resistance

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ai/2026-07-13

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Disarm the Machine

Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas declares the centuries-old doctrine of just war 'outdated,' and ties the declaration directly to autonomous weapons systems. He then coins a phrase for what should replace it: disarming AI. Not rejecting technology. Freeing it from the logic of armed competition that has already captured the labs, the budgets, and the language.

AI Governance Military AI Just War

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