Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences...

There is no such thing as a “just” war. It’s just war. And it’s antithetical to the Gospel.

When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.

Saddam’s politics was the politics of the thug, of violence from the outset of his reign. Realism suggests that some people are not going to be tractable in response to purely peaceable overtures. Indeed, it...