October 08, 2020
Prof. Edward Feser responds to George Weigel’s recent essay, “Truman’s Terrible Choice”, published September 30th of this year in First Things. In “Truman’s Terrible Choice”, George Weigel correctly observes that “it seems difficult, if not impossible, to vindicate Hiroshima and Nagasaki on classic just-war grounds without relativizing moral norms in the kind of ethical calculus John