“Never Such Innocence Again”: A Review of Humanity
Metanexus:Views 2001.09.26 1550 words “What draws humans repeatedly to war?” asks Jill Neimark today in her reviewof Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by English ethicistJonathan Glover (September 2000, Yale University Press, ISBN:0-300-08700-4). Pleasure, she writes, is one reason; transcendence isanother. But there are other reasons, justifications, and means. As a New Yorker,…