The goal of making warfare more ethical - by banning the use of torture and limiting civilian casualties - might seem unimpeachable, but what if attempts to make war more humane have inadvertently created the conditions for an era of endless war?

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Samuel Moyn is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and a professor of history at Yale University.