Waging War on War

The notion that war plays a fundamental role in the United States'' idea of itself obscures the rich--and by no means naïve--seam of anti-war thinking that winds through American culture. Non-violent resistance, far from being a philosophy of passive dreamers, instead embodies Ralph Waldo Emerson''s belief that peace "can never be defended, never be executed, by cowards."

Giorgio Mariani rigorousl...