– By a veteran of the war in Afghanistan (2001-2021)
In the winter of 2008, I was on the parade square of Lympstone Commando with the thirty others who had made it through training…
– By Danny Singh
The purpose of this essay is to delve into an interesting and contemporary topic on conscription. Although it may appear ethical to engage in warfare to protect one’s state…
Mark-Alec Mellor: Conscription is sometimes justified as a duty of reciprocity: the state provides for us, confers civic rights upon us, and defends our natural
Mark-Alec Mellor : La conscription est parfois justifiée par le fait qu’il s’agit d’un devoir de réciprocité : l’État subvient à nos besoins, nous confère
Mark-Alec Mellor: A veces la conscripción se justifica como un deber de reciprocidad: el Estado nos presta servicios, nos confiere derechos cívicos, defiende nuestros derechos
– By John Sullivan
(Lights up on Mr. URUKUMU & Baby Rookie Downstage Center. Mr. URUKUMU sits, gagged & tied to a chair. Baby Rookie walks around him in a circle…
– By Chris Pigott
The judge had a giant black hand. He held the cup as though it was weightless, a national flag fluttering lightly
– By Brian Melican. “Prussia is not a country with an army, but an army with a country”; “Whereas most states have an army, the Prussian army has a state”; “Prussia was an army in search of a country”…
– By Johanna Fisher
Conscription. The origin of the word dates to the 14th century and means, “putting in writing.” It is later associated with the “enlistment of soldiers” during the early 16th century…
– By Duncan Forbes
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) is justly famous for his war poems and the memoirs provoked by his experiences in the First World War…
– By Karen Carey
As this essay is being written, in the horror of this war, it is next to impossible to imagine any transitional justice initiatives that could do anything to ameliorate the anguish…
– By David Barash & Ward Wilson
After seeing the movie, “Oppenheimer,” a friend recently commented, “I certainly don’t like them [nuclear weapons], but what can we do? We can’t put that genie back in its bottle”…
– By Karen Laws
Today, in the library where nobody goes, I saw a persimmon…
– By Jack Parvid
The absence of storm threat on the horizon, or difficult terrain, or predators and, above all, human life, except my own…
